A BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING LION

細節

A BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING LION
WORKSHOP OF TIZIANO ASPETTI, LATE 16TH CENTURY

With a collection label on the reverse of the base inscribed 'E.G.R.', on a later rectangular white marble base.
Warm brown patina; minor chips to base.
6½in. (16.5cm.) long

來源

Christie's, The Robert Strauss Collection of Renaissance and Other Bronzes, 3 May 1977, lot 79

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Y. Hackenbroch, Bronzes, Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1962, fig. 32
K. Pechstein, Bronzen und Plaketten, Berlin, 1968, no. 85

拍品專文

The present bronze model of a lion is ultimately derived from antique prototypes, and exists in a number of collections, including the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, and the Irwin Untermyer Collection. In both these catalogues, the model is described as 'North Italian, first half 16th Century' and the present example was similarly described when it was sold from the Strauss Collection in 1977. It has since been suggested that the model may have originated later than was formerly supposed, for analogies can be found in the work of Tiziano Aspetti.