AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE BRONZE MODEL OF A WARRIOR ON HORSEBACK

PADUA, CIRCA 1510

细节

AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE BRONZE MODEL OF A WARRIOR ON HORSEBACK
Padua, circa 1510
The horse rearing up on its hind legs, the nude warrior with an arm raise, upon a rectangular base and further later rosso antico and black slate base, the rider originally with a weapon in one hand, with a hole to the top of the rider's head
9½in. (24cm.) long

来源

Jacob Goldschmidt, Berlin.
The Antique Porcelain Company, New York.

出版

W. Wixom, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, exhib. cat. Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975, cat. no. 77.

展览

Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1975, no. 77.

拍品专文

This model has been previously attributed to Riccio, Severo da Ravenna and also Stefano Bellano. Wixom discusses the current bronze in detail, citing other comparable models at length. Pointing out that the rider is in correct scale to the horse when viewed from one side, he further concludes that they were probably modelled by the same master despite the disproportionate scale when viewed from other viewpoints. The rather spontaneous and highly energized fluidity of movement shared between horse and rider evince the group's high quality. Other varients of this model include the one in the Untermeyer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; another in the Musée du Louvre; one lacking the rider attributed to Severo da Ravenna that sold Christie's London, 2 July 1991, lot 41: and a final that sold from the Hatvany Collection, Christie's London, 25 June 1980, lot 34.