A BRONZE FIGURE OF CHRIST AT THE COLUMN

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF CHRIST AT THE COLUMN
CAST FROM A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS DUQUESNOY (1597-1643)
On a spreading ebonised wooden base; the surface with a greenish-brown lacquer.
Minor chips to lacquer on column and reverse of perizonium.
12in. (30.5cm.) high

Provenance

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Montagu, A Flagellation Group: Algardi or du Quesnoy?, Bulletin des Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, XXXVIII-XXXIX, 1966-67, pp. 153-93
H.R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten - 15.-18. Jahrhundert, Braunschweig, 1967, pp. 371-3, fig. 454
F. Souchal, La Collection du Sculpteur Girardon d'après son Inventaire après Décès, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXXXII, 1973, pp. 38-9, 53, nos. 16, 57, figs. 17, 86

Lot Essay

As Jennifer Montagu has argued (loc. cit.), various treatments of Christ at the column would appear to be derived from a lost marble statue by Duquesnoy for Hesselin. An example in bronze and another in terracotta formed part of the collection of the French sculptor Girardon (Souchal, loc. cit.). The present bronze differs from the other examples in the arrangement of the loincloth, which is instead identical to that found in the bronze in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Weihrauch, loc. cit.).

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