Description

Late C19th Italian bronze �Grand Tour� souvenir reduction sculpture after the antique, �Lo Spinario �.
The Spinario also known as �Il Fidele� or �The Thorn Puller� , is an ancient Greco-Romano Hellenistic bronze sculpture , originally recorded as sited outside the Lateran Palace in 1165 , the celebrated sculpture is now housed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori , Capitoline Museums , Rome , Italy . There is also a Roman marble version from the Medici collections in a corridor of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence .
The subject, thought to be a lowly shepherd boy , a faithful messenger, is depicted in intense concentration attempting to draw a thorn from the sole of his foot .
This well-cast bronze reduction of the iconic original, is mounted upon it�s original turned circular �rouge griotte� marble base.
Good consistent patination to the bronze with hues of both green and chocolate brown .
H 14� ( total)
H 12� (bronze)
W 7�
D 7�
Italy , Rome or Naples c. 1880
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