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6 - Attributed to Giuseppe Girometti (Rome, 1780 - 1851)

Estimate €3,500 - €8,000
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Attributed to Giuseppe Girometti (Rome, 1780 - 1851) Excellent agate cameo of Pope Pius VII, after the model by Antonio Canova. Diameter: 5.4 cm. Set in 18-karat gold by Linzeler & Fils Joailliers – orfèvres de S.M. L'Empereur. Paris. 19th century. As we can read on the Vatican Museums’ website, in the description of the ten magnificent pieces in their collection titled Giuseppe Girometti: Cameos in antique style: “Works such as the ten cameos produced by Giuseppe Girometti around 1838 (Nos. 6-15), derived from carvings by Hellenistic masters such as Aspasios, Solon, Gnaios, Sosocle, Ruphus and Athenion, or from large scale original sculptures, such as the colossal bust of Helios-Serapis, found on the Via Appia in the Frattocchie area in 1777 (Vatican Museums, Sala Rotonda, cat. 245) or the marble Antinous as Dionysus, discovered at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1790 (Vatican Museums, Sala Rotonda no. 251), take a central place among neoclassical glyptic masterpieces.” 8 https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/museo-profano/galleria-clementina-i/cammei-all-antica.html) Provenance: - Collection of a hôtel particulier in Paris, belonging to a family of the French high aristocracy. A collection assembled between 1883 and 1976. - By descent to the present owner.
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Auction time 10/01/2026 at 7:00 PM
Lot description modified on 09/17/2026 at 6:54 PM
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