AFTER THE ANTIQUE, BY DOMENICO CASTELLANI, 1781

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A CARVED MARBLE FIGURE OF THE CAPITOLINE ANTINOUS
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, BY DOMENICO CASTELLANI, 1781
Depicted standing in contrapposto with head lowered to dexter and with his left hand outstretched; on an integrally carved square plinth signed and dated to the reverse 'DOMINICVS CASTELLANI ROMANVS FECIT LA MDCCLXXXI'; the left index and middle fingers lacking
31 in. (78.8 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 143-4, no. 7.

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Lot Essay

The Capitoline Antinous upon which the present marble by Domenico Castellani is based, was discovered at Hadrian's villa, Rome, and is first recorded as having been in Cardinal Albani's collection in 1733. The Hadrianic marble, itself a copy of a marble or bronze dating to the fourth century BC, was one of the many antiquities surrendered to the French under the Treaty of Tolentino in 1797 and housed in the Musée Central des Arts in 1800. By 1816, however, it was returned it to the Italians and placed in the newly refurbished Capitoline Museum in Rome.

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