ECL-Bm.14:30-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.14:30-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue group: two genii
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Sampson catalogue states :
The drawings, by a variety of artists are sometimes stuck to the pages of this volume and do not keep to the place allotted to them by number. Three drawings are missing.
The drawings, by a variety of artists are sometimes stuck to the pages of this volume and do not keep to the place allotted to them by number. Three drawings are missing.
Description
Content (description)
Two nude youths wearing laurel wreaths stand with a small altar between them. The one on the viewer's left leans with his arm round the other's shoulder and holds a patera in his right hand, looking down at the altar. The youth on right holds a flaming torch touching the altar and a second torch over his left shoulder. The rectangular altar is decorated with garlands hanging from boukrania. By the left leg of the genius on right is a small statue of a draped female wearing a polos (?)
Content (object)
statue
Dimensions
height (actual size): 492mm
width (actual size): 382mm
width (actual size): 382mm
Inscription
Genii in aedibus Odescalchi written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right
Stefano Pozzo signed in red chalk lower left
Stefano Pozzo signed in red chalk lower left
Materials & techniques note
red chalk and red pencil on paper
Production
Person
Pozzi, Stefano, 1699 - 1768 (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Blanco (28E Lam X-XI In the Prado, Madrid)
