AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, ITALIAN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING HORSE
AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, ITALIAN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Depicted with the proper front right and back left legs raised and the tail elaborately platted; on a rectangular shaped verde antico marble base; dark brown patina with warm brown high points
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high; 12¾ in. (32.4 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Michael Jaffe collection and by descent.

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Lot Essay

Although no early sources record this popular model as an invention of Giambologna's, the attribution is universally accepted on the basis of its similarity to the horse in the equestrian bronze of Cosimo I de' Medici in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence (see C. Avery, Giambologna - The Complete Sculpture, Oxford, 1987, nos. 38 and 132).

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