Lot 138
138
A BRONZE FIGURE OF CAESAR AUGUSTUS

Details
A BRONZE FIGURE OF CAESAR AUGUSTUS
SCHOOL OF RICCIO, PADUAN, 16TH CENTURY

The figure standing in contropposto wearing toga and laurel wreath in his hair, holding a baton in his left hand ----- 13 1/8in. (33.3cm.) high, on an integrally cast pedestal, on mottled marble plinth, brown patina with extensive black lacquer
Literature
L. Planiscig, Anfrea Riccio, Vienna, 1927, p. 217, pl. 248; p. 221, pl. 250

Lot Essay

The style of the figure reflects that of Andrea Ricco, in his classsizing relief of the Finding of the True Cross, Museo Archeologico, Venice: a similar statuette of a warrior in Roman armour, with arms outstretched was in the Kohner Collection, Budapest (cf. Planiscig, pl. 250).