AFTER THE ANTIQUE: A 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE DYING GAUL the injured nude solider on an oval base with a sword beside him, dark brown patination with greenish high points,  17cm high x 30cm wide Related Literature: F. Haskell and N. Penny, 'Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture' 1500-1900, New Haven and London, p. 224-227, no. 44 The original marble of the Dying Gaul was first recorded in 1623 in the Ludovisi Collection, and later acquired for the Capitoline Museum by Pope Clement XII before it was sent to Paris in 1797. After Napoleon's defeat it was returned to the Capitoline.