A ROMAN MARBLE GROUP STATUE OF BACCHUS, A SATYR, PAN AND CUPID

Lot 30
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Lot 30 | A ROMAN MARBLE GROUP STATUE OF BACCHUS, A SATYR, PAN AND CUPID
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£ 250 000 – 350 000
A ROMAN MARBLE GROUP STATUE OF BACCHUS, A SATYR, PAN AND CUPID

CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.

26 5⁄8 in. (67.5 cm.) high





Provenance

Formerly in the collection of Palazzo Corsini, Florence.

Henning Throne-Holst (1895-1980), Stockholm, acquired in Rome, 1960.

The Henning Throne-Holst Collection, Christie's, London, June 8, 1988, lot 43.

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.

William Haber, Beverly Hills, acquired from the above, 1988.

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2005 (Art of the Ancient World, no. 9).

Private collection (M.B.), Woodland Hills, CA., acquired in January 2005.

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009.



Literature

H. Dütschke, Antike Bildwerke in Oberitalien II, Zerstreute antike Bildwerke in Florenz, Leipzig, 1875, p. 118, no. 292.

A. Minto, Satiro con Bacco fanciullo, Gruppo frammentario in Firenze, estratto da Ausonia anno VIII, 1913, pp. 96-97, fig. 5.

O. Vessberg, 'Sculptures in the Throne-Holst Collection', Medelhavmuseet Bulletin, no. 2, 1962, pp. 42-46, figs. 3-5.

A. Andrén, Antik skulptur i svenska samlingar, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 25.

P. Gercke, 'Zur Gruppe: Satyr mit Dionysosknaben auf der Schulter', Opus Nobile. Festschrift zum 60 Geburtstag von Ulf Jantzen, Wiesbaden, 1969, pp. 48-49, fn. 3.

C. Dierks-Kiehl, Zu späthellenistischen bewegten Figuren der 2. Hälfte des 2. Jahrhunderts, Freiburg, doctoral thesis, c. 1973, pp. 86-87, fn. 23.

K. Kell, Formuntersuchungen zu spät und nachhellenistischen Gruppen, Saarbrücken, 1988, pp. 40-43, fn. 130.

P. Bol, Forschungen zur Villa Albani. Katalog der antike Bildwerke II, Berlin, 1990, pp. 289-293, fn. 7.

J. Pollini, 'Roman Marble Sculpture', in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 95, fig. 41.

'Museum Opening of the Year', Apollo, December 2011, pp. 58-59.

J. Lenaghan, Le Banquet de Marseille à Rome, Plaisir et Jeux de Pouvoir, Paris, 2016, p. 59.

N. Benazeth, "Dining with Socrates and Nero", Minerva, vol. 28, no. 1, May/June 2017, p. 26, fig. 14.

'Quoi de neuf au MACM de Mougins?', Mougins Infos, no. 79, 2021, p. 29.



Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011 - 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA461).

Centre de la Vieille Charité, Musée d'Archéologie Mediterranéenne, Marseille, Le Banquet: de Marseille à Rome, Plaisir et Jeux de Pouvoir, 3 December 2016 - 24 September 2017.
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