A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE BUSTS OF THE YOUNG CHRIST AND THE VIRGIN

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A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE BUSTS OF THE YOUNG CHRIST AND THE VIRGIN
WORKSHOP OF FRANÇOIS DUSQUESNOY, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

Some wear to gilding; a hole drilled in the top of each head; casting flaws to the breast of the Virgin; on ebonised wooden pedestals.
5 7/8in. (14.9cm.) high (2)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G.P. Bellori, Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni, Rome, 1672, p. 283
M. Fransolet, François du Quesnoy - Sculpteur d'Urbain VIII 1597-1643, Brussels, 1942, p. 176, nos. 9 and 10, pl. XXIII

拍品專文

Bellori records that a pair of terracotta heads of the young Christ and the Virgin were in the collection of Cardinal Francesco Barberini. From these Duquesnoy himself cast and chased versions in silver for Queen Henrietta Maria of England and for Cardinal Camillo Massimi (Bellori, loc. cit.). Bronze examples are in the Galleria Estense in Modena and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Fransolet, loc. cit.), but no other example in gilt-bronze is known.