French school of the 19th century The Borghese... Lot 175
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French school of the 19th century The Borghese Centaur and the young Furietti Centaur Pair of gilded bronzes Dim. 31.5 x 23.5 cm and Dim. 35.5 x 26 cm on white marble bases Accident to the right arm of the Furietti Centaur Expert: cabinet Lacroix-Jeannest Related works: -Aristaeus and Papias of Aphrodisias, Furietti Centaurs, gray-black marble, H. 156 cm, Rome, Capitoline Museum -IInd century A.D., Rome, Borghese Centaur, marble, H.142 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, n°inv. MR 122. Related literature: -F. Haskell & N. Penny, Pour l'Amour de l'Antique. Greco-Roman Statuary and European Taste - 1500/1900, Hachette, Yale University press, 1981, pp.266-267 These small gilded bronzes are inspired by two illustrious antiquities: the young centaur from the famous pair of antique marbles discovered during excavations at the Villa Adriana in 1736 by Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti and since called the "Furietti Centaurs", and the "Centaur with Cupid" discovered on the Fonseca estate near the Lateran in the late 16th century and mentioned at the Villa Borghese in 1638. The great renown of these antique sculptures led to the publication of small art bronzes, of which the earliest known casts are those purchased by Nollekens from Cavaceppi in 1765. The finest examples of this model were cast by Righetti and Zoffoli, and were eagerly snapped up by Grand Tour collectors. The Borghese Centaur, which entered the Musée du Louvre collection in 1807, is frequently paired with the young Furietti centaur, as specialists believed the Borghese statue to be the original and the old Furietti centaur a copy. Here, the young Furietti centaur has been complemented by a small eros on its back, as it was thought that in their original state, the two Furietti centaurs
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