A FINE AND LARGE MARBLE RELIEF, probably emblematic of Water, carved with a group of putti frolicking around a large fish, caught in a net suspended between the branches of two trees in the background, (minor damages, frog's head lacking), first half 18th Century

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A FINE AND LARGE MARBLE RELIEF, probably emblematic of Water, carved with a group of putti frolicking around a large fish, caught in a net suspended between the branches of two trees in the background, (minor damages, frog's head lacking), first half 18th Century
41½ x 22¾in. (105.4 x 57.8cm.)
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
M.I. Webb, Michael Rysbrack, London, 1954, figs. 57, 63-64
J. Leeuwenberg, Bieldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1973, nos. 276 and 307
Brussels, Musee d'Art Ancien, La sculpture au siècle de Rubens, 1977
Bristol, Museum and Art Gallery, Michael Rysbrack, 1982, fig. 28

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).

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