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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Panther Attacking a Goat

Panther Attacking a Goat

late 1700s
(Italian, 1734–1818)
Overall: 43.8 x 66.5 x 28.5 cm (17 1/4 x 26 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

One of the best known restorers of ancient sculpture, Franzoni often invented totally new compositions from small fragments. However, this sculpture is entirely Franzoni’s own work, down to the breaks seen in such places as the panther’s tail and the goat’s legs and jaw. Curiously, Franzoni based this work on one of his own restorations, now in the Vatican, although his composition here is more balanced and elegant, in keeping with ideas in the late 1700s about how ancient sculpture should look.
  • Private collection (Italy), sold, Sotheby's, London, July 9, 2008, lot 165, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
  • {{cite web|title=Panther Attacking a Goat |url=false|author=Francesco Antonio Franzoni|year=late 1700s|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.109