A BRONZE GROUP OF THE PASQUINO

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ITALIAN, 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY

Details

A BRONZE GROUP OF THE PASQUINO
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ITALIAN, 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY
On a rockwork base
20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Art Market, Brighton, circa 1965.

Literature

Scultura, exh. cat., Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London, 2008, no. 25, p. 98.

Exhibited

The Minneapolis Institue of Arts, 1975-1982.
The Bronze Figure in Italy, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida and J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1981, no. 22.
Twining Gallery, New York, 1988.
C. Avery and M. Hall, Giambologna: An Exhibition of Sculpture by the Master and his Followers from the Collection of Michael Hall, Esq., Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1998, no. 54.
Giambologna and his Followers: Sculpture from the Collections of Michael Hall, Miami-Dade College Museum of Art, Freedom Tower, 9 October 2009-20 February 2010.

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
U. Procacci, La Casa Buonarotti, Florence, 1965, pp. 199-200, no. 15.
K. Lankheit, Die Modellsammlung der Pozellanmanufaktur Doccia, Munich, 1982, pl. 141.

As noted by Charles Avery, this model is a refinement of an earlier composition that was manufactured by Pietro Tacca on the basis of both an Antique fragment and a wax model attributed to Giambologna which was done for its proposed restoration (See Scultura, loc. cit.). And the author of these refinements was the Florentine Giovanni Battista Foggini -- as evidenced by his surviving models and piece-molds acquired by the Marchese Ginori for use in his new factory at Doccia.

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