Menander
Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1793 (signed and dated)
Materials
Bronze and marble
Measurements
295 x 256 mm (without base)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871621.3
Summary
Bronze on black marble base, Menander (c.343 - 291 BC), after the antique, Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785), 1793, signed G. Zoffoli F. Rome 1793. The Roman marble is in the Musei Vaticani, Rome (inv.no. MV_588).
Full description
Part of a bronze garniture de cheminée cast in Rome at the foundry of Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli, consisting of a central equestrian figure of Marcus Aurelius, two seated figures of Agrippina and Menander, the Capitoline Flora and the Farnese Flora, and the Borghese and Medici Vases.
Provenance
Probably bought by Lord Boringdon in Rome 1793 and thence by descent until accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by H. M. Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785), maker Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731 - 1785), maker Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805), maker
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein, London, 1982, no.55
References
Honour 1961 Hugh Honour 'Bronze Statuettes by Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli', Connoisseur, DXCVII, November 1961, fig. 4. pp. 198 - 205