Superb quality late 19th century Grand Tour pantinated bronze library bust of the Lansdowne Antinous depicted as the god Dionysos. The original marble bust was unearthed at Hatrian''s Villa, Tivoli in 1769 during excavations undertaken by the art dealer and archaeologist Gavin Hamilton who secured it for Lord Lansdowne an avid collector of antiquities. It now resides in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. Foundry stamp to reverse for the German bronziers Sanson. Circular emboss with ''F.P.Sanson Succr. Hamburg Neuerwall 4''. Presented on an associated Roman Tessalico Verde Antico and Belgium Black marble socle base. Beautifull example. Germany, circa 1890.H 46.5cm x W 19cm x D 22cmbust: H 34.5cm x W 19cm x D 22cm socle: H 12cm x D 13.5cm 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...