ID 992792 
Lot 58  | AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA (1757-1822), ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 400 000 
Dancing Girl with Her Hands on Her Hips and Dancing Girl with Her Finger on Her Chin
marble figures; apparently unsigned; the base of the figure with hands on hips with a paper label to the reverse inscribed 'Danseuse / Canova'; each on a Sarrancolin and white marble cylindrical pedestal
55 1/2 in. (140 cm.) high, each; 90 1/2 in. (230 cm.) high, overall
(2)
Provenance
Baron Louis François Joseph Empain (1862-1935), 1 rue Zinner, Brussels and thence by descent.
Private collection, Belgium.
Anonymous Sale; Artcurial Paris; 16 June 2020, lot 228, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
I. Teotochi Albrizzi, The Works of Antonio Canova, in Sculpture and Modelling, London, 1824, II.
G. Pavanello, L’opera completa del Canova, Milan, 1976, nos. 172 and 230.
M. Guderzo, ed., Il Museo e la Gipsoteca di Antonio Canova di Possagno, Possagno, 2012, pp.98-109.
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| Medium: | Marble, Stone | 
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| Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures | 
| Medium: | Marble, Stone | 
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| Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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