BY PIETRO CECCARDO STAGI (1754-1814), AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A CARVED MARBLE FIGURE OF THE APOLLO BELVEDERE
BY PIETRO CECCARDO STAGI (1754-1814), AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Depicted striding forward with his left arm held out and his right resting on a tree stump with a serpent; on an integrally carved circular plinth, signed to the front 'P. STAGI. Fecit.'; minor restoration to the fingers of the right hand, other very minor chips
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high, overall

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon, XXXI, ed. by Hans Vollmer, p. 444.
L. Bonacoscia and M. Germani, 'Pietro Stagi, scultore di Sua Maestá il Re di Polonia', Le Apuane, November 1994.
Carrara, Accademia di belle Arti and Massa, Palazzo Ducale, I marmi degli Zar, Gli scultori carraresi all'Ermitage e a Peterhof, April-June 1996, pp. 56-57.

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Lot Essay

Pietro Stagi spent much of his working life in Carrara, but he and his brother Gioacchino are also known to have worked for Stanislaw II Augustus Poniatowski (1732-1798), the last independent king of Poland. His marbles of Pygmalion (after Falconet) and Prometheus (after Boizot) - both commissioned by the Polish king - are now in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, while his replica of an ancient head of Ajax is in the castle at Jablonna near Warsaw.

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