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Lot 60 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FRENCH BRONZE OF THE SLEEPING ARIADNE
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Closed20 September 2012
Price Realised
GBP 5,000
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Specialist note
Known as The Sleeping Ariadne, and also often identified as Cleopatra, this reclining figure is after the antique prototype dating from the late Hadrianic period (itself a copy of a 2nd century BC Greek prototype) housed in the Musei Vaticani, Rome.