Grand Tour bronze of Apoxyomenos

Good quality late 19th century Grand Tour patinated bronze reduction of Apoxyomenos, an athlete, after the antique original now on display in the Cabinet of Apoxyomenos in the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican Museums in Rome. Caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a small curved knife called a strigil. The Roman marble copy of an earlier bronze by Lysippos (circa 320BC), was excavated in 1849 in Trastevere in Rome. Nice example presented on an associated green Verde Antico marble base. Italy, circa 1890.

H 37cm x W 14cm x D 19.5cm

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