Italian, first half 19th century

i. Christie's, Paris, 23 October 2015, lot 152

Acquired from the above by the present owner

ii. Christie's, South Kensington, 6 February 2015, lot 238

Acquired from the above by the present owner

iii. Christie’s, South Kensington, 6 February 2015, lot 38

Acquired from the above by the present owner

i. Clare Siaud and Pierre Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes, Artist's Jewels, Hommage à François Hugo, Les Cyprès, Aix-en- Provence 2001, p. 153

Clare Finn, ‘The decorative metalwork of Pablo Picasso: his collaboration with François Hugo,’ PhD diss., Royal College of Art 2004, p. 1156

Diana Küppers, Künstlerschmuck = objets d'art, Hirmer, Munich 2009, p. 124

ii. Clare Siaud and Pierre Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes, Artist's Jewels, Hommage à François Hugo, Les Cyprès, Aix-en-Provence 2001, p. 153

Clare Finn, ‘The decorative metalwork of Pablo Picasso: his collaboration with François Hugo,’ PhD diss., Royal College of Art 2004, p. 1156

Diana Küppers, Künstlerschmuck = objets d'art, Hirmer, Munich 2009, p. 124

iii. Clare Siaud and Pierre Hugo, Bijoux d'artistes, Artist’s Jewels, Hommage à François Hugo, Les Cyprès, Aix-en-Provence 2001, p. 153

Clare Finn, ‘The decorative metalwork of Pablo Picasso: his collaboration with François Hugo,’ PhD diss., Royal College of Art 2004, p. 1156

Diana Küppers, Künstlerschmuck = objets d’art, Hirmer, Munich 2009, p. 125

This fine marble sculpture is carved after the ancient marble, Apollino, also known as the Little Apollo, or Medici Apollo, which is now in the illustrious Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence. First recorded in the Villa Medici in Rome in 1704, the Apollino marble was copied by leading sculptors and often paired with the Venus de Medici.

RELATED LITERATURE

N. Penny and F. Haskell, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, pp.146-147, no.7