WORKSHOP OR NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (FL.1593-1636), CIRCA 1600

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A BRONZE MODEL OF A BOY RIDING A PRANCING LION
WORKSHOP OR NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (FL.1593-1636), CIRCA 1600
The lion depicted standing on its proper left paw and raising up its paws while the rider holds onto its maine; on an integrally cast circular plinth and associated rectangular marble pedestal; dark brown patina with warm brown high points
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high; 11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high, overall

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum 1540 to the present day, Oxford, 1992, I, p. 181, nos. 124, 125.

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Lot Essay

Another version of this unusual, and rare, bronze exists as one of a pair in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (loc. cit.). In terms of style, finer details and casting, it relates very closely to the work of Nicolò Roccatagliata and although Penny (ibid.) proposes that the Ashmolean bronzes are poor casts by a later Venetian founder, the colour and method of casting of the present lot is consistent with the workshop of Roccatagliata himself.

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