Panther Attacking a Goat (late 1700s): Art, History and Details

Panther Attacking a Goat (late 1700s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Francesco Antonio Franzoni (Italian, 1734–1818).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

One of the best known restorers of ancient sculpture, Francesco Franzoni often invented totally new compositions from small fragments. However, this sculpture is entirely Franzoni’s own work, down to the breaks seen in such places as the panther’s tail and the goat’s legs and jaw. Curiously, Franzoni based this work on one of his own restorations, now in the Vatican, although his composition here is more balanced and elegant, in keeping with ideas in the late 1700s about how ancient sculpture should look.

Object facts

• Title: Panther Attacking a Goat
• Date: late 1700s
• Creator attribution: Francesco Antonio Franzoni (Italian, 1734–1818)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: marble
• Dimensions: Overall: 43.8 x 66.5 x 28.5 cm (17 1/4 x 26 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
• Collection: Sculpture
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 2008.109

Collection credit

Dudley P. Allen Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Seydl, Jon. "Finding Franzoni." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 49, no. 3 (March 2009): 6-7.

View the collection record

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