Lot Essay
The swaying pose, small head and generous drapery reflect the style of the sculptors Girolamo Campagna and Tiziano Aspetti, both active in Venice. Stylistic comparisons can be drawn with the marble statue of Peace (Timofiewitsch, op.cit., fig. 31), the bronze St. Agnes or Meekness (idem. fig. 96) and the bronze Venus (Camins, op.cit., fig. 13) by Campagna and workshop; and the bronze figure of Peace (Mariacher, op.cit., fig. 141), the bronze Peace (idem. fig. 142) and the bronze Venus (idem. fig. 144) by Aspetti. Another small bronze, often associated with Aspetti, of Judith, also shares this fluidity and torsion of style, though the drapery ripples with a far greater nervousness (Camins, op.cit., fig. 21). The iconography of the present figure is interesting, and she may have been part of a set of the four Cardinal Virtues, though the double-face can symbolise Deceit or Fraud.