The Apollo Belvedere
Category
Art / Prints
Date
c. 1750 - 1799
Materials
Crayon manner engraving in sanguine ink on paper
Measurements
460 x 287 mm
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 732623
Summary
Crayon manner engraving in sanguine ink, The Apollo Belvedere, late 18th century. On laid paper pasted on linen. One of a set of five prints after Classical sculptures. After a Hadrianic period marble copy, circa 120-140, of an original by Leochares, 350-320 BC, in the Vatican's Museo Pio-Clementino, Rome.
Provenance
Unknown provenance.
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, 8, fig. 77