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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF ST. PETER
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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF ST. PETER

WORKSHOP OF JACQUES SARAZIN (1592-1660), SECOND QUARTER 17TH CENTURY

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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF ST. PETER
WORKSHOP OF JACQUES SARAZIN (1592-1660), SECOND QUARTER 17TH CENTURY
Depicted facing slightly to sinister and on an integrally carved spreading square base; very minor chips
16½ in. (42 cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J.-R. Gaborit, ed., Sculpture Francaise II - Renaissance et Temps Modernes, Paris, 1998, II, p. 589, no. RF1430 B.
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Lot Essay

On stylistic grounds the present bust of St. Peter can be attributed to the workshops of Jacques Sarazin, the most important sculptor active in the first half of the 17th century in France. Carved in the highly classicising style that Sarazin had adopted after his sojourn in Rome, the bust also bears very close physiognomical similarities to the head of St Phillip Neri from the monument of Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle executed by Sarazin and his collaborator Lestocard Charles, and now housed in the Louvre, Paris (Gaborit, loc. cit.).

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