Bronze sculpture of Spinario or Boy with Thorn.
Bronze sculpture of Spinario or Boy with Thorn.
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A Grand Tour bronze sculpture of Spinario or Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele or Fedelino, bearing the mark of Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck, one of the most important foundries in Germany and known for producing high quality bronze castings from 1851 -1926.
The model is of a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze sculpture depicting a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. There is a Roman marble version of this from the Medici collections in a corridor of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
This finely patinated example is raised on a marble base, approx. 9 1/2" 24cm high
Height: 9½” (24cm)
£1,450