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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, p. 343.
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum 1540 to the present day, Oxford, 1992, I, no. 3. and no. 20.
Thalia is derived from the Roman full-length seated figure of the 2nd century AD in the Museo Pio-Celementino, Vatican, and is itself a copy of a lost Greek original. The Roman marble entered the Papal collection in 1774 after being discovered, along with a series of other muses, in excavations conducted by Domenico de' Angelis at the Villa di Cassio, Tivoli, before 1773.
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, p. 343.
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum 1540 to the present day, Oxford, 1992, I, no. 3. and no. 20.
Thalia is derived from the Roman full-length seated figure of the 2nd century AD in the Museo Pio-Celementino, Vatican, and is itself a copy of a lost Greek original. The Roman marble entered the Papal collection in 1774 after being discovered, along with a series of other muses, in excavations conducted by Domenico de' Angelis at the Villa di Cassio, Tivoli, before 1773.