AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ATTRIBUTED TO CARLO ALBACINI (ACTIVE IN ROME C. 1760 - 1807), LATE 18TH CENTURY

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Lot 25 | AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ATTRIBUTED TO CARLO ALBACINI (ACTIVE IN ROME C. 1760 - 1807), LATE 18TH CENTURY
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ATTRIBUTED TO CARLO ALBACINI (ACTIVE IN ROME C. 1760 - 1807), LATE 18TH CENTURY

Bacchus and Ariadne

marble group; on an integrally carved base

39 1/4 in. (100 cm.) high





Provenance

Purchased in 2018 by the present owner.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 189–91.

L. Azcue Brea, La Escultura en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1994, pp. 285-7.

E. Marconi, ‘Francesco Carradori: Bacco e Arianna 1776’ in Il fasto e al ragione: Arte del Settecento a Firenze, exhibition catalogue, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 2009, pp. 296-297.

M. D. Sánchez-Jáuregui and S. Wilcox, eds., The English Prize: the capture of the Westmorland, Oxford, 2012, p. 258, cat. no. 95.
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