Name: AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ENGLISH, 19TH CENTURY
Brand: The Wrestlers
Price: 15000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ENGLISH, 19TH CENTURY
The Wrestlers
lead group; on an oval stone pedestal
25¹⁄₂ in. (64.7 cm.) high; 51¹⁄₄ in. (130.2 cm.) high, overall
39 in. (99 cm.) wide
28¹⁄₂ in. (72.4 cm.) deep

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 337-9, no. 94.

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The Wrestlers, also known as The Pancrastinae, is inspired by a Roman marble sculpture at the Uffizi, Florence, which is after a lost Hellenistic bronze of the third century BC, either of the Pergamene school or the circle of Lysippus. Lauded since its discovery in 1583, the group has been a fixture of Western art, reappearing in many forms throughout the centuries including the marble copy by Philippe Magnier, now in the Louvre (circa 1684-1688, inv. no. MR2040), and as a highlight of the Uffizi gallery in Johan Zoffany’s painting for Queen Charlotte, The Tribuna of the Uffizi, still a part of the Royal Collection (1722, inv. no. RCIN 406983).