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 BULL
AFTER GIAMBOLGNA, FLORENTINE, 17TH CENTURY
(crack on rear right leg, touches of verdigris on front right hoof) ----- 8½in. (21.6cm.) high, on mottled marble base, reddish grren brown patina with thin lacquer
AFTER GIAMBOLGNA, FLORENTINE, 17TH CENTURY
(crack on rear right leg, touches of verdigris on front right hoof) ----- 8½in. (21.6cm.) high, on mottled marble base, reddish grren brown patina with thin lacquer
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, Giambolgna, 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 der Fürstlichen Sammlung Liechtenstein (exhibition catalogue) Frankfurt, 1987, nos. 19, 20
C. Avery, Giambolgna, 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 der Fürstlichen Sammlung Liechtenstein (exhibition catalogue) Frankfurt, 1987, nos. 19, 20