Sculpture representing "Cleopatra" or "Sleeping... - Lot 242 - L'Huillier & Associés

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Sculpture representing "Cleopatra" or "Sleeping... - Lot 242 - L'Huillier & Associés
Sculpture representing "Cleopatra" or "Sleeping Ariadne" draped in the Antique style in carved marble (accidents to the feet and hands, splinters). Neoclassical Period 49 x 67 x 22 cm This sculpture is directly inspired by an antique marble preserved in the Vatican Museum in Rome. This Roman original, itself a copy of an earlier model from the Pergamon School, was first mentioned in 1512 when Pope Julius II acquired it from Angelo Maffei. It was placed in the Belvedere and particular care was taken in staging it, giving the illusion of a grotto, known as the "stanza della Cleopatra". In 1797, after a few centuries in the papal collections, the work was ceded to the French by the Treaty of Tolentino and was sent to Paris in July 1798. Exhibited at the inauguration of the Central Museum of Art in 1800, it returned to Rome after the fall of Napoleon with the first return of statues on 4 January 1816 and in May of the same year it appeared in the Pio-Clementino Museum. As soon as it entered the papal collections in the 16th century, the work was admired by European writers, artists and enthusiasts. Some great collectors, mainly sovereigns and princes, had replicas made of it, including a marble copy made for Isabella d'Este, another, this time in bronze, cast by Primatice for Francis I, and later two others in marble, one by Jean-Baptiste Goy, the other by Corneille Van Cleve, sculpted for the collections of Louis XIV. Finally, in the second half of the 18th century, other copies were made, notably in bronze by the Italian sculptors Zoffoli and Righetti or in marble by Pierre Julien. Provenance: Château de Mouchy-le-Châtel
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