拍品 33
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A bronze group of Venus and Cupid
The Property of a Deceased Estate
A bronze group of Venus and Cupid

WORKSHOP OF NICCOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (ACTIVE 1593-1636), EARLY 17TH CENTURY

細節
A bronze group of Venus and Cupid
Workshop of Niccolò Roccatagliata (active 1593-1636), early 17th century


On an integrally cast circular plinth and an associated circular marble pedestal.
Dark warm brown patina; numerous minor nicks; minor damages to edges of plinth.
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high
出版
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, 1975, no. 122.

拍品專文

The pose of this bronze was a popular one among Venetian sculptors in the late 16th and early 17th centuries and was produced, with variations, in the workshops of Vittoria, Campagna, Aspetti and Roccatagliata. This particular model, however, with its heavy-lidded gaze and provocative contrapposto, has been accepted as a creation of Roccatagliata's in recent decades (William Wixom in Cleveland, loc. cit.). Unlike many of the surviving casts, this example has the additional merit of showing Venus accompanied by Cupid.