19th CENTURY FRENCH ECOLE AFTER THE ANTIQUE The Arrotino or - Lot 499

19th CENTURY FRENCH ECOLE AFTER THE ANTIQUE The Arrotino or the Scythian Scourer or the Remou-leur Bronze with brown patina H. 24 cm and terrace 22 x 11.5 cm Related works: -The Remouleur, marble, H. Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725), Arro-tino, copy after the antique, white marble, H. 110 x W. 105 x D. 51 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, n°inv.MR 1853. Preserved in the Uffizi Palace in Florence, the antique marble was bought by Cardinal Ferdi-nand de Medici from the Roman Mignanel-li family before being sent to Palermo in 1800. The work was very successful in France thanks to the copy made by the Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725) for the Palace of Versailles at the end of the 18th century. Numerous reductions in marble or bronze multiplied throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in France and Italy.