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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF THE CAPITOLINE ANTINOUS
Lot 264

A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF THE CAPITOLINE ANTINOUS

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ITALIAN, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed6 July 2012

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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF THE CAPITOLINE ANTINOUS
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ITALIAN, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY
On a circular grey marble socle; minor restoration
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high; 22 7/8 in. (58 cm.) high, overall

Specialist note

The present bust is carved after the antique prototype of the so-called Capitoline Antinous, which was discovered in the 1730s at Hadrian's Villa, Rome. Ceded to the French in 1787-8 under the Treaty of Tolentino it was returned in 1816 and was displayed in the reorganised Capitoline Museum, where it still resides.