Regent Antiques has dated this Antique Charcoal Academic Drawing to the 19th Century.
The picture depicts a statue of Capitoline 'Antinous'. The figure has a Severe-style face and a contrapposto stance.
Housed in its black lacquered frame with gilded fluting.
Condition:
In really superb condition, having only been delicately cleaned, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 93 cm x Width 72 cm x Depth 2 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 feet, 1 inch x Width 2 foot, 4 inches x Depth 1 inch
The Capitoline 'Antinous'
is a marble statue of a young nude male found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, during the time when Conte Giuseppe Fede was undertaking the earliest concerted excavations there. It was bought before 1733 by Alessandro Cardinal Albani. To contemporaries, it seemed to be the real attraction of his collection. The statue was bought by Pope Clement XII in 1733 and went on to form the nucleus of the Capitoline Museums, Rome, where it remains. The restored left leg and the left arm, with its unexpected rhetorical hand gesture, were provided by Pietro Bracci. In the 18th century, it was considered to be one of the most beautiful Roman copies of a Greek statue in the world. It was then thought to represent Hadrian's lover Antinous owing to its fleshy face and physique and downturned look. It was part of the artistic loot taken to Paris under the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino (1797) and remained in Paris 1800–15, when it was returned to Rome after the fall of Napoleon.
In part due to its hair being unlike that in better-attested Antinous-types, which closely follow a very few iconographic models, it is now considered to be a Roman Imperial era copy of an early 4th century BC Greek statue of Hermes.
Our reference: A5281a
Regent Antiques has dated this Antique Charcoal Academic Drawing to the 19th Century.
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Antique Large Framed Drawing The Capitoline Antinous Dated 1836
