signed on the back of the integrally cast base, F RIGHETTI ROMÆ 1792, on later marble base.

The Cyril Humphris Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, January 11, 1995, lot 143

Golden-brown patina beneath greenish lacquer. Old repaired casting flaws including left elbow area of left hand figure, areas of his lower legs, and an old casting flaw around his neck, all of which are stable and not easily detected. Further old repairs to casting flaws to lower arms of right figure and to areas of lower legs. Otherwise general standard surface abrasions.
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This group was designed after the ancient marble group first recorded in the Ludovisi collection in 1623 and now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. Many copies were made including one by Antoine Coysevox for Louis XIV at Versailles.

Francesco Righetti studied under the Roman silversmith Luigi Valadier and quickly succeeded him in the reproduction of ancient compositions. Righetti printed a listing, including a bronze group of Castor and Pollux, among some 25 groups, 78 individual figures, 46 busts, and other decorative elements, primarily after the antique, available for order in Rome in 1794 (Haskell and Penny, op. cit., fig. 90, no. 19).

RELATED LITERATURE
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven, 1981