Lot Essay
This is a good example of an animal bronze modelled by Giambologna, and reproduced first by Antonio, and later, by Gianfrancesco Susini.
Details
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A WALKING HORSE
AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, FLORENTINE, 17TH CENTURY
----- 9½in. (22.4cm.) high, on marble base, brown patina with traces of gilding and a thin lacquer (2)
AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, FLORENTINE, 17TH CENTURY
----- 9½in. (22.4cm.) high, on marble base, brown patina with traces of gilding and a thin lacquer (2)
Provenance
Eckstein, London
Literature
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, Giambologna, Sculptor to the Medici, (exhibition catalogue) Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1978, nos. 151, 178
C. Avery, Giambologna, the Complete Sculpture, Oxford/New York, 1987, p. 268, no. 132, p. 270, no. 144
Museum alter Plastik in der Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Die Bronzen des Fürstlichen Sammlung Liechtenstein, (exhibition catalogue) Frankfurt, 1987, nos. 19,20
C. Avery, Giambologna, the Complete Sculpture, Oxford/New York, 1987, p. 268, no. 132, p. 270, no. 144
Museum alter Plastik in der Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Die Bronzen des Fürstlichen Sammlung Liechtenstein, (exhibition catalogue) Frankfurt, 1987, nos. 19,20