Fine quality late 19th Century Grand Tour patinated bronze reduction of Apoxyomenos, an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a small curved knife called a strigil. The Roman marble sculpture on which this model is based, which was in turn based on an earlier bronze by Lysippos (circa 320BC), was excavated in 1849 in Tratesvere in Rome and is now on dispay in the Cabinet of Apoxyomenos in the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican Museums. Stamped ''B.Boschetti Roma'' to the base and presented on the original red and black marble viewing base. Originally sold with an optional fig leaf which is now sadly missing. Benedetto Boschetti (Rome 1820-1870), circa 1860.Based in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: elegance in the age ...