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A BRONZE FIGURE OF NEPTUNE
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF NEPTUNE

AFTER JACOPO SANSOVINO, 18TH CENTURY

Details
A BRONZE FIGURE OF NEPTUNE
AFTER JACOPO SANSOVINO, 18TH CENTURY
On an integrally cast naturalistic base.
Dark brown patina with lighter high points.
115/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
B. Boucher, The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino, New Haven and London, 1991, no. 35, fig. 310.
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Lot Essay

The original model can be found on the staircase of the Doge's palace, Venice. The colossal marble (4.4 m. high) is accompanied by the figure of Mars, also by Sansovino. Both date to the first half of the 16th century (Boucher, loc.cit.).

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