FRENCH or ITALIAN SCHOOL, - Lot 153

FRENCH or ITALIAN SCHOOL, After the antique model, the mattress after a drawing by Gian Lorenzo BERNINI dit LE BERNIN (1598-1680), Sleeping Hermaphrodite, known as Hermaphrodite Borghese. Important subject in bronze with brown patina. Height Height : 15 cm. Length : 69 cm. Depth : 37 cm. This work is taken from the famous Roman imperial sculpture discovered in Rome near the Diocletian Baths and now in the Louvre Museum. Part of the Borghese family collection, Cardinal Scipio commissioned the sculptor Giovanni Bernini in 1619 to create the mattress on which the antique marble rests. In 1807, it was acquired by Napoleon I from Camille Borghese to join the collections of the Musée du Louvre.