Lot Essay
These are stylistic analogies between this relief and the work of such mid to late 17th Century Flemish sculptors as Antus Quellinus the elder, François Dusquenoy and Lucas Faydherbe. The present relief, however, appears to be later, and may have been carved by a sculptor who had been influenced by their work.
There are similarities between this relief and the work of Michael Rysbrack, a Flemish sculptor who settled in England around 1720, particularly in the faces of the putti (Bristol op. cit., fig. 28), and the figures of putti lying on their stomachs in his reliefs (op. cit., Webb, figs. 63-64).
There are similarities between this relief and the work of Michael Rysbrack, a Flemish sculptor who settled in England around 1720, particularly in the faces of the putti (Bristol op. cit., fig. 28), and the figures of putti lying on their stomachs in his reliefs (op. cit., Webb, figs. 63-64).