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An Italian 19th century alabaster group of "Ariadne on the Panther", on a Verde Antico marble pedestal after the model by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841) (2) image 1
An Italian 19th century alabaster group of "Ariadne on the Panther", on a Verde Antico marble pedestal after the model by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841) (2) image 2
An Italian 19th century alabaster group of "Ariadne on the Panther", on a Verde Antico marble pedestal after the model by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841) (2) image 3
Lot 65

An Italian 19th century alabaster group of "Ariadne on the Panther", on a Verde Antico marble pedestal
after the model by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841)

Europe - Defining Style
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Italian 19th century alabaster group of "Ariadne on the Panther", on a Verde Antico marble pedestal

after the model by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (1758-1841)
the group on a rectangular base with canted angles, raised on a rotating verde antico marble pedestal, the group: 67cm wide, 29cm deep, 80cm high (26in wide, 11in deep, 31in high); overall: 180cm high, (70 1/2in high). (2)

Footnotes

Literature:
H.W.Janson, Nineteenth Century Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, 1985, pp. 62-3.
The present sculpture is after the celebrated work by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (d.1841) today in the State Sculpture Gallery, Frankfurt. Ariadne, daughter of the King Minos of Crete, having helped Theseus, whom she loved, to escape from the Labyrinth was in return abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. Bacchus rescued her and they soon were married. The vine wreaths in Ariadne's hair allude to her union with Bacchus the God of wine, as does the panther which is often depicted drawing Bacchus's Triumphal chariot.

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