VENETIAN, 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY

Details

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A WOMAN, POSSIBLY REPRESENTING A NIOBID
Venetian, 17th or 18th century
On an integrally cast rectangular plinth and a later square marble base.
Light brown patina and brassy high points.
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
L. Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance, Vienna, 1921, pp. 300-301, figs. 311, 313, 314.
J. Pope-Hennessy and A. Radcliffe, The Frick Collection - An Illustrated Catalogue, III, Sculpture, Italian, New York, 1970, pp. 164-168.
W. Bode, The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, ed. and rev. by J. Draper, New York, 1980, p. 95, pl. LXXVIII.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present bronze figure corresponds extremely closely to another example of the same composition in the Skulpturensammlung of the Staatliche Museen in Berlin (Planiscig and Bode, locs. cit.). That bronze has been associated with a bronze male figure in a similar pose, (an example of which is in the Frick Museum in New York, loc, cit.), which has been attributed in the past to Francesco de Sant' Agata, but which is currently thought to be Venetian, early 16th century.

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