LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Bronze

Size Notes:

the busts; (30.3 cm.) with socle; (47 cm.) overall

Description:

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Markings:

Signed and Dated to the Reverse of the Shoulders 'f. Righetti. F. Romae. 1788'

Literature:

Carl Fredrik Fredenheim, Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, KB, C.F. Fredenheims Diarier, 17th April 1789, M241, fol. 289. Giuseppe Antonio Guattani, Rome, Archivio di Stato,Camerale II, Antichità e Belle Arti, busta.13, fasc. 295, October 1789. C. Teolato, 'Roman bronzes at the court of Gustavus III of Sweden: Zoffoli, Valadier and Righetti', The Burlington Magazine, vol. 153, no. 1304, Nov. 2011, pp. 727-733. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: F. Haskell and N. Penny: Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500–1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 78, 93–6, 341–2. A. Luchs, 'Francesco Righetti', Grove Art Online, 2003, online resource, assessed 10/05/2019. A. Hilliam, 'Longing for the Antique: Collecting the bronze statuettes of eighteenth-century Rome', Master of Studies in History of Art and Visual Culture, University of Oxford, 2013.

Provenance:

Almost certainly, acquired by Gustav III of Sweden (1746-1792), on the recommendation of Francesco Piranesi and Carl Fredrik Fredenheim. Sent by Francesco Piranesi to Sweden soon after the 14th October 1789. Bukowskis, Stockholm, 1910, catalogue 186, lots 102-106 (two of six lots of paired busts): 'Romerska portrattbyster, tva st., olik färgad marmor'. Auktionsverk, Stockholm, 1975, lot 320, where acquired by Private Swedish Collector, from whom purchased by the present owner.