Unusual, early 19th Century Italian patinated cabinet bronze of a highlight of the Grand Tour, The Dying Gaul, on a Siena marble base, after the antique. Sometimes referred to as The Dying Galatian or The Dying Gladiator, the original is now on permanent display in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. Beautiful fine casting with a dark brown patination and unusually cast as seperate pieces and mounted directly onto the marble not as an integral oval base as is nearly always the case. Italy, probably Rome, circa 1820.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 of Napoleon. Our extensive stock covers all aspects of this period and decorative antiques influenced by the period. We constantly source new, beautiful items and upload to our site regularly. W...