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Cast of part of a Roman marble relief in the Villa Albani depicting Leto and her children Apollo and Artemis sacrificing with a winged Victory, or Nike, in front of the Temple of Apollo at Delphos
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Cast of part of a Roman marble relief in the Villa Albani depicting Leto and her children Apollo and Artemis sacrificing with a winged Victory, or Nike, in front of the Temple of Apollo at Delphos
Plaster cast
Museum number: M791
On display: Dome Area
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
The original Roman relief dates from the first century BC (Rome, Villa Albani, inv. 1014): its provenance is unknown.
For a more complete cast of the same relief see Soane Museum no. M37.
For a more complete cast of the same relief see Soane Museum no. M37.
Provenance
Acquired by Soane from the architect Lewis Wyatt, 1834.
Literature
Jan Zahle, Thorvaldsen: Collector of Plaster Casts from Antiquity and the Early Modern Period, 2020, Vol. II, p.177-178, Thorwaldsen inventory no. L257 and Vol. III, p.228 (illustration of Thorwaldsen example).
Associated items
M825, cast from same original
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