An important 19th century Florentine marble statue depicting Ariadne on the Panthersigned F. Vichi, Firenze, after the original by Johann Heinrich Von Dannecker (1758-1841), modelled as a nude classical female figure with drapery held in one hand and a garland of grape leaves to her hair whilst riding a collared panther, raised on a stepped rectangular marble plinth, inscribed signature to plinth, (loss to one finger, hairline crack to back right hand corner and loss to back left hand corner), 82. 5 x 97. 5 x 33 cm. Provenance: Acquired at Leonard Joel, 18th April 2007, lot 889 Published: Leonard Joel, 18th April 2007, page 91.