AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE BRONZE FIGURE OF AN AMPHORA-BEARER: 'AQUARIUS'

ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO DA SANT'AGATA, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

細節

AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE BRONZE FIGURE OF AN AMPHORA-BEARER: 'AQUARIUS'
Attributed to Francesco da Sant'Agata, early 16th century
The nude figure standing in contrapuntal pose with an upturned amphora over one shoulder, upon a later fluted columnar marble base
15in. (38cm.) high overall

來源

Edward R. Lubin, New York.

出版

W. Wixom, Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, exhib. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975, cat. no. 111.

展覽

Renaissance Bronzes from Ohio Collections, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, no. 111.

拍品專文

A comparable figure of Hercules in the Asmolean Museum, Oxford, attributed to Sant'Agata by Planiscig is one of the keys to the attribution of the current figure (L. Planiscig, Piccoli Bronzi Italiani del Rinascimento, Milan, 1930, plate CXXVIII, no. 224). Supporting this early attribution is the directly comparable signed boxwood figure of Hercules by Sant'Agata in the Wallace Collection, London. The graceful contrapuntal form, rather lanky muscularity and stance underscore the shared origin of these figures. A gilt bronze figure of Hercules with a club attributed to Sant'Agata sold Christie's London, 4 July 1989, lot 128. Other variants of this figure are known and discussed by Wixom, who also mentions the attributions to Camelio and Riccio proposed by Pope-Hennessy. These other examples can be found in Braunschweig, Vienna, Klosterneuburg and Berlin.