Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Another Property
Lot Closed
July 6, 01:44 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Another Property
A Pair of Marble Reliefs depicting the Massacre of the Niobids, in the Style of the Antique
circa mid 19th Century
one carved with Artemis, the other with Apollo, shooting arrows at the children of Niobe.
42 by 92 and 42 by 87.5 cm.
Giovanni Battista Milani, Via de’ Barbieri 1, Rome, by 1874
Galerie Chenel, rue du Bac, prior to 2005
Published
drawing, dated 1874, in the archive of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rome: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/buchseite/936767
Heinrich Heydemann, “Über unedierte Niobiden-Reliefs,“ Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Philologisch-Historische Classe, vol. 29, 1877, p. 102f., note 59: “wol erst in diesem Jahrhundert fabriciert“ (https://archive.org/details/berichteberdie2931berl/page/n127/mode/2up)