The Dying Gaul
Pietro Barzanti, After Epigonus
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 2 000 - 4 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 15 243
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Pietro Barzanti, After Epigonus
Italian 1842-1881
The Dying Gaul
signed and inscribed 'Florence'
marble
height: 23cm including base; width: 41cm; depth: 18,5cm
Notes
The present lot is a reproduction of a Roman copy, now in the Capitoline Museums, Rome, of the original Hellenistic Greek bronze sculpture, now lost. The original is believed to have been made by Epigonus, court sculptor to Attalus I of Pergamon, between 230 and 220 BC to celebrate a victory over the Galatians in Anatolia (now Turkey).
Pietro Barzanti, in Florence, was one of the many Italian sculptors who made small replicas of famous antique sculptures as souvenirs for tourists doing the European 'Grand Tour' in the nineteenth century.
Provenance
5th Avenue Auctioneers, Johannesburg, 2010.
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