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Dreweatts

Donnington Priory

Newbury, Berkshire

RG14 2JE

United Kingdom

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Viewing in London (highlights): Dreweatts London, 16-17 Pall Mall, St James’s, London SW1Y 5LU
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AFTER THE ANTIQUE- A CARVED FRUITWOOD FIGURE OF THE APOLLO BELVEDERE

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AFTER THE ANTIQUE- A CARVED FRUITWOOD FIGURE OF THE APOLLO BELVEDERE ITALIAN, 17TH/18TH CENTURY On an integrally carved circular plinth figure 53cm high, 63.5cm high overall Provenance: Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé Collection Private collection, Lombardy. Literature : F. Haskell & N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale University Press, 1981, p. 148-151 J. J. Winckelmann, Writings on Art, ed. David Irwin, Phaidon, 1972, p. 140. This figure is a rare fruitwood model of the celebrated antique marble in the Belvedere courtyard in the Vatican, known as the Apollo Belvedere. While scholars have been divided on whether the work is a Greek original, or a Roman copy of a fourth-century Greek bronze carved during the Hadrianic period, the Apollo Belvedere remains without doubt one of the most sublime statues surviving from ancient times. Its ancient provenance, along with its discovery are unknown; however, by the end of the sixteenth century, it was in possession of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II, who moved it to the Vatican during his pontificate. There, it was displayed in a niche in the Belvedere courtyard, where, with the exception of the period between 1797 to 1816, when it was ceded by Pope Pius IV to the French (under the Treaty of Tolentino) and displayed in Paris, it has remained ever since. Admired for its physical beauty and underlying sensuality, for the preeminent neoclassical art theorist, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the Apollo Belvedere represented the apogee of the Greek ideal. Winckelmann ascribed to the work ' a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur' , one that had an incredibly powerful agency: " In the presence of this miracle of art I forget all else, and I myself take a lofty position for the purpose of looking upon it in a worthy manner [...] I feel myself transported to Delos and into the Lycaen groves, - places which Apollo honoured by his presence [...]". An icon of the Enlightenment, the Apollo Belvedere was widely copied and translated into a great variety of materials, and this fruitwood version is an unusual and rare survival from this period. The fine grain of this fruitwood allows for passages of very intricate carving on a minute scale and, when polished, enables the work to take on a rich brown coloration in a similar manner to bronze. Versions of classical sculptures made from these types of woods appealed to the same collectors who prized bronze statuettes.

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CIRCLE OF EUGENE VIOLLET-LE-DUC (1814-1879)- AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF GILT BRONZE GRIFFINS

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