A MULTICOLOURED MARBLE AND SCAGLIOLA BUST OF A FEMALE BLACKAMOOR

PROBABLY VENETIAN, LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A MULTICOLOURED MARBLE AND SCAGLIOLA BUST OF A FEMALE BLACKAMOOR
Probably Venetian, late 18th or early 19th Century
Depicted looking straight ahead and wearing a turban; on a panelled scrolling socle and a modern polychrome panelled square wooden pedestal.
32 in. (83.2 cm.) high, the bust
78 in. (199.4 cm.) high approx. overall

來源

The Yusupov Palace, St Petersburg.

拍品專文

Although negroes had been represented in various art forms for centuries, it was really with the strengthening of trade links with Africa and Asia in the latter part of the 17th century that the fashion for depicting 'blackamoors' gained in popularity. In particular, Venice, with its vast sea-trading empire, developed a tradition for this genre. The present bust, with its proudly erect head, is typical in its depiction of the subject as a 'noble savage'.