Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010819Panther Attacking a Goat
About the Artwork
One of the best known restorers of ancient sculpture, Francesco Franzoni often invented totally new compositions from small fragments. However, this sculpture is entirely Franzoni’s own work, down to the breaks seen in such places as the panther’s tail and the goat’s legs and jaw. Curiously, Franzoni based this work on one of his own restorations, now in the Vatican, although his composition here is more balanced and elegant, in keeping with ideas in the late 1700s about how ancient sculpture should look.
Provenance
Private collection (Italy), sold, Sotheby's, London, July 9, 2008, lot 165, to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Francesco Antonio Franzoni (Italian, 1734–1818)
- Date
- late 1700s
- Medium
- marble
- Dimensions
- Overall: 43.8 x 66.5 x 28.5 cm (17 1/4 x 26 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 2008.109
Open-access museum record · AT-00010819
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