A Pair of Marble Reliefs depicting the Massacre of the Niobids, in the Style of the Antique, circa mid 19th Century

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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July 6, 01:44 PM GMT

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4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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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)

Another 19th century Niobid relief in the style of the antique, this one carved as a fragment, was sold at Sotheby’s, Paris, March 16th, 2021, no. 179.