The Chatsworth Crouching Lion & Sleeping Lion
Gorgeous Lions which are 8 inches or 20 cm long, CL20, by Artforum. One lion is 'crouching' and one is 'sleeping'. Both are perfect, and are boxed. These are a pair reproduced from the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. The originals of these sculptures can be found in the sculpture gallery at Chatsworth, Derbyshire. In , the 6th Duke commissioned Rinaldo Finaldi and Francesco Benaglia to copy the lions from the Canova Sculpture in St Peter's, Rome. The Chatsworth originals are larger than life size and Artforum's sculptures have recreated these scaled down versions. Read more