Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
23-24 July 1917
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/90
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    256 APOLLO AND HYAKINTHOS: antique group, in Parian marble—6 ft. 7 in. high—found at Tivoli in the}excava- tions of Hadrian’s Villa—Greek. This statue, the subject of which is taken from the story in the ‘‘ Metamorphoses ”’ (Book X.), was the perpetual theme of Canova’s admira- tion while it remainedin Rome. The god, whose delicate pose has been remarked on by Michaélis, is in a slightly leaning attitude, his body softly bent and his elbow resting on the stump of a tree. Hyakinthos—represented much smaller—stands in a calm attitude and holds in his right band the fateful discus. The restorations of this famous group are insignificant, and are almost ‘“A remarkable work,” says Michaélis. ‘Of the highest merit,’ says the learned author of the article in the work published by the Dilettanti Society, where also (in vol. ii.) the group is illustrated [Puate X1X.] 1
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