The Capitoline Flora
Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1793 (signed and dated)
Materials
Bronze and marble
Measurements
335 x 110 x 136 mm; 259 mm (Width)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871621.4
Summary
Bronze, The Capitoline Flora, after the antique, by Giovanni Zoffoli (c.1745-1805) and Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-1785), 1793. The original 2nd century AD marble Capitoline Flora is in the Musei Capitolini, Rome (Inv. Scu 743).
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
References
Honour 1961 Hugh Honour 'Bronze Statuettes by Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli', Connoisseur, DXCVII, November 1961 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, 40