The Wild Boar (Calydonian Boar; Il Porcellino)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
160 mm (L); 153 mm (H); 90 mm (D)
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1297797
Summary
Bronze, The Wild Boar (Calydonian Boar; Il Porcellino). Cast bronze model of a half seated boar, resting on a wooden plinth. It was thought to represent the Calydonian Boar killed by Meleager and based on an ancient marble marble, recorded as in the courtyard of the house of Paolo Ponti by Aldovrandi in his account of the ancient statues of Rome published with Fauno's guide of 1556. It was in the Pitti Palace by 1568 and since 1591 the Uffizi in Florence.
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958)
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 13