A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL GROUP OF THE RAPE OF POLYXENACast after a model by Pio Fedi (Italian, 1816-1892)On a green marble base.height of figure 21 1/4in (54cm); height overall 23 1/4in (59cm); width 9in (23cm); depth 10in (25.5cm)Artist or Maker: Pio Fedi (Italian, 1816-1892)Provenance: Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba. After Achilles killed her brother Troilus, she revealed his one weakness to her brothers, Paris and Deiphobus, who shot an arrow into his heel and killed him.Achilles' son Neoptolemus is shown about to kill her on the grave of his father after Achilles' ghost hade back to the Greeks to demand the human sacrifice of Polyxena so as to appease the wind needed to set sail back to Hellas.