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Giuseppe Caputi (Italian, active 1813-1833): A Roman patinated bronze figure of 'The Dying Gaul'
After the antique, circa 1820

Fine Decorative Arts
29 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Giuseppe Caputi (Italian, active 1813-1833): A Roman patinated bronze figure of 'The Dying Gaul'

After the antique, circa 1820
The wounded warrior on oval base, marked 'CAPUTI', 23.3cm high

Footnotes

The Italian sculptor and medallist Giuseppe Caputi was active in Rome during the first half of the 19th century.

Literature
L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin-, Gem-, and Seal-Engravers, Mint-Masters, etc. Ancient and Modern. With Reference to their Works. B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, London, 1904, vol i, p. 342.

First recorded in the Ludovisi Collection in 1623, the antique marble known as 'The Dying Gaul' was acquired for the Capitoline Museums by Pope Clement XII, before being ceded to the French in 1797. The sculpture arrived in Paris in a triumphal procession and was housed in the Musée Central des Arts. After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, it was returned to the Capitoline Museums, where its fame was such that, it was displayed in a dedicated room named after it. The subject was long interpreted as a Gladiator until late 19th-century scholarship identified the poignant figure as a wounded Galatian, whose army invaded the Hellenistic kingdom of Pergamon in the third century AD. Since the marble's discovery, its popularity has spawned numerous reductions in bronze, marble and alabaster.

Related Literature
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, p. 224-227, no. 44

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