Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, Giambologna, 1978, no. 6
C. Avery, Giambologna, Oxford, 1987, p. 259
The model for this statuette has been unanimously attributed to Giambologna. It was immensely popular with collectors and was reproduced throughout Europe during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other examples of the statuette include the versions in Wallace Collection, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, Giambologna, 1978, no. 6
C. Avery, Giambologna, Oxford, 1987, p. 259
The model for this statuette has been unanimously attributed to Giambologna. It was immensely popular with collectors and was reproduced throughout Europe during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other examples of the statuette include the versions in Wallace Collection, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.