1839-1182, AJAX WITH THE BODY OF PATROCLUS [DEFENDS IT AGAINST THE TROJANS]

Record Number: 40001982
Sub-database: Poniatowski
Reference Number: 1839-1182
Material of Original Gem: Cornelian
Description: AJAX WITH THE BODY OF PATROCLUS [DEFENDS IT AGAINST THE TROJANS]
Last Recorded Collection: Unknown
Previous Collections:
- Calandrelli drawing, Antikensammlung Berlin: A.III.49 (?)
- Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): V.246
- Christie's, London: 1839-1182
- Cades, T.: Impronte dell' Instituto: 74.969 ?
- Furtwaengler, A.: Die antiken Gemmen (1900): 112, pl.23.4 'ex Poniatowski collection' ?
Comments: Furtwängler probably confused the Calandrelli copy of the Boncompagni collection, now in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, coll. Warren, inv. 10.174, with the original when he believed it to be from the Poniatowski collection (Furtwaengler, A.: Die antiken Gemmen (1900): 112, pl.23.4 'ex Poniatowski collection'). It is more likely that Calandrelli's design for Poniatowski was an original composition, as the drawing suggests, and not a copy of the Boncompagni intaglio.

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