ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO BERTOS ITALIAN

ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO BERTOS

ITALIAN, 1678-1741

a carved marble allegorical group fragment, depicting a slave, possibly Ganymede, in the grips of an eagle, surmounted by a naked male figure, the back with an axe, a barrel and a rope, 62cm high, on a later stone stand

LITERATURE

See Charles Avery, Bertos - The Triumph of Motion, for relating sculptures.