WORKSHOP OF ANTONIO SUSINI (FL. 1580-1624), FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A BAGPIPER
WORKSHOP OF ANTONIO SUSINI (FL. 1580-1624), FIRST QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Depicted sitting on a wooden stump with his head turned to sinister and blowing into the pipes held between his arms; on an integrally cast circular plinth; warm brown patina with traces of a darker surface; the pipe lacking
4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
C. Avery and K. Watson, 'Medici and Stuart: a Grand Ducal gift of 'Giovanni Bologna' bronzes for Henry Prince of Wales (1612)', in The Burlington Magazine, CXV, 1973, pp. 493-507.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Giambologna - Sculptor to the Medici, C. Avery and A. Radcliffe eds., 5 October - 16 November 1978, nos. 135-8.
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum 1540 to the Present Day, Oxford, 1992, I, no. 44.
C. Avery, Giambologna - Sculpture by the Master and his Followers, New York, 1998, no. 52.
London, Daniel Katz Gallery and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 11 June - 19 July 2002, Victoria Avery ed., London, p. 307, no. 4.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The earliest specific reference to the model of a seated Bagpiper, an example of which is offered here, is in a bill of lading of March 1611 recording bronze statuettes sent by the Grand Duke Cosimo II de' Medici to Prince Henry of Wales: 'uno Pastore che suona la piva' (a shepherd who plays the pipes, see Avery and Watson, op. cit., no. 13, p. 94). Further down the list of the 1611 bill was another bronze of 'uno Pastore che s'appoggia a uno bastone' (a shepherd who leans on a crook) with which the latter bronze was almost certainly paired (see Avery and Radcliffe, op. cit., nos. 135 and 138 respectively). A similar pair of silver figures, presumably made by Giambologna, were loaned in 1601 to Antonio Susini by the Grand Duke who may have wanted further casts made.

A number of high quality examples of the Bagpiper, cast by Susini and his workshop, still survive, with the prime version almost certainly being the gilt-bronze model in the Bargello, Florence (ibid, no. 135). Other virtually identical, high quality, casts to the present bronze can also be found in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (V. Avery, loc. cit.), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and as sold in these Rooms 5 July 2005, lot 437 (£55,000 hammer).