Francesco RIGHETTI (Rome 1749 - Rome ou Naples 1819)

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Francesco RIGHETTI (Rome 1749 - Rome ou Naples 1819)
Moses with the Tables of the Law, after Michelangelo Bronze with brown shaded patina. Signed "F - RIGHETTI-ET-ALO-DIC-FEC" Height of the bronze : 31cm ; Total height : 56cm Pink granite base and moulded wooden counter base. Provenance: - Count Napoleon-Henri Begouën (1863-1956), Montesquieu-Avantès. - Private collection, Toulouse (gift of the previous owner, in the 1930s). - Then by descent to the present owner. Francesco Righetti (1749-1819) was one of the most prolific sculptors, goldsmiths and bronze workers in Rome at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. He apprenticed in the workshop of Luigi Valadier (1726-1785) and succeeded him as director of the Vatican foundry in 1805. For a similar example from the collections of Pope Pius VII, see Sotheby's sale, Old master Paintings, New York, 31 January 2013. The present work, kept in the same Toulouse family for nearly a century, was for a time in the collection of Napoléon-Henri Bégouën (1863-1956), an archaeologist, prehistorian and curator in Toulouse, and was acquired according to family tradition by Bégouën's great-grandfather, General Auguste de Caffarelli while he was Minister of War of the Kingdom of Italy.
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