AFTER BERTEL THORVALDSEN (DANISH 1770-1844) A LARGE CARVED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE 'THE SHEPHERD BOY' PROBABLY ITALIAN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY The boy depicted seated, lamb skin on his back, staff in his hand and dog by his side, apparently unsignedapproximately 99cm high, 58cm wide, 40cm deepThis composition is derived from Thorvaldsen's figure from 1822-25. Whilst it would seem to be a departure from the artist's classicist sensibilities- the Thorvaldsen Museum's notes for this work reflect that the boy is akin to "a brother of the mythological shepherd boy Ganymede, who was taken up to Olympus by Jupiter's eagle. In other words, Thorvaldsen, the classicist, has been able to envelop the shepherd boy's naked body in an invisible - yet effective - veil of classicism". In a way it may be that Thorvaldsen was drawing on Jean Francois Lorta's 1783 sculpture of "Apollo in the guise of a shepherd"
AFTER BERTEL THORVALDSEN (DANISH 1770-1844) A LARGE CARVED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE 'THE SHEPHERD BOY' PROBABLY ITALIAN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY The boy depicted seated, lamb skin on his back, staff in his hand and dog by his side, apparently unsignedapproximately 99cm high, 58cm wide, 40cm deepThis composition is derived from Thorvaldsen's figure from 1822-25. Whilst it would seem to be a departure from the artist's classicist sensibilities- the Thorvaldsen Museum's notes for this work reflect that the boy is akin to "a brother of the mythological shepherd boy Ganymede, who was taken up to Olympus by Jupiter's eagle. In other words, Thorvaldsen, the classicist, has been able to envelop the shepherd boy's naked body in an invisible - yet effective - veil of classicism". In a way it may be that Thorvaldsen was drawing on Jean Francois Lorta's 1783 sculpture of "Apollo in the guise of a shepherd"
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