The Nile - Lot 40

Lot 40
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The Nile - Lot 40
The Nile boxwood; on an ebony base and a molded blackened wood pedestal France, late 17th / early 18th century, after the Antique 2,7 x 5 x 2,8 cm ; height : 5,2 cm. (total) : 5,2 cm (the right arm glued back and the tip of one foot very slightly restored) The Roman model, dating from the first century AD. (Musei Vaticani, inv. 2300), will know, like the one from the Tiber, an important critical fortune in France under the reign of Louis XIV. In 1687, the King's Buildings commissioned the Roman sculptor Lorenzo Ottoni to make a copy of the model. The marble, completed in 1692, was not installed in the park of the Château de Marly until 1719 (now in the Tuileries, inv. MR 1964). Numerous bronze reductions of the river god, generally in counterpart to the Tiber, were cast in the same period, including the one attributed to Corneille van Clève (ca. 1700-1730; Wallace Collection, London, inv. S 179). François Girardon owned two examples, of two different sizes, as the engravings in the sculptor's gallery by Nicolas Chevalier after René Charpentier attest.
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