FRENCH SCHOOL C. 1800 Dying Gladiator and Diana... Lot 123

FRENCH SCHOOL C. 1800 Dying Gladiator and Diana the Huntress White marble and gray marble terms H. 165 and H. 168 cm Accidents and restorations Related works: -Dying Gladiator, marble, H. 93 x W. 93 x W. 89 cm, Rome, Capitoline Museum -Italy, Diana the Huntress, Second quarter of the 2nd century A.D., marble, H. 200 cm, Paris, Louvre Museum, inv. Ma 589. These two heads of the Diana the Huntress and the Dying Gladiator were inspired by two ancient sculptures that entered the Louvre at the same time in 1800. The Diana the Huntress, documented and preserved successively at the Château de Fontainebleau and Versailles, was transferred to the Louvre in 1798, while the Dying Gladiator arrived in Paris during the triumphal procession of July 1798 following the Treaty of Tolentino. These two sculptures, widely commented on and admired in the Louvre, probably inspired a sculptor of the first half of the nineteenth century who interpreted them as terms in the purest neoclassical spirit.