Lot 330
BRONZE FIGURE OF THE DANCING FAUN, AFTER THE ANTIQUE
20TH CENTURY
Auction: Day 2
£1,890
Description
verdigris patina, on a circular variegated green marble base
Dimensions
62cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Property from an East Lothian deceased estate
Footnote
Note: The statue is cast after a Hellenistic marble in the Tribuna of the Uffizi, Florence. The marble was first recorded as being in the Florentine Grand Ducal collection in a book by Albert Rubens, Peter Paul Rubens' son, posthumously published in 1665. In 1684 the owner was named as Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642-1723). By 1688 the statue was installed in the Tribuna of the Uffizi (Haskell and Penny 1981, pp. 205-8, no. 34, fig. 106).