Reception of Antiquity: Thorn-Puller

Reception of Antiquity: Thorn-Puller Late 19th century, unsigned, modelled on the ‘Capitoline Thorn-Puller’, a Roman bronze sculpture from the 1st century BC, which combines Hellenistic and archaic stylistic elements and is based on a Greek model; on display at the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome; a naked youth, seated on a rock and pulling a thorn from his foot; on a marble plinth; well preserved for its age, H 20.5 cm.

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H 20,5 cm