Antinous

This bronze statuette is based on the marble Capitoline Antinous which was recorded in 1733 in Cardinal Albani's collection, having been found in Hadrian's Villa. It is one of four bronzes made in the Zoffoli workshop bequeathed by Professor Rowland.

The Zoffoli workshop was the most important of four such workshops active in Rome during the eighteenth century and specialising in the reproduction of small bronzes after antique sculpture, primarily for the foreign Grand Tour market . Zoffoli bronzes were particularly collected in England where they formed ideal adornments for chimneypieces.