A BRONZE FIGURE OF A CROUCHING SOLDIER

AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, 17TH CENTURY

Details

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A CROUCHING SOLDIER
AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, 17TH CENTURY
On a later alabastro fiorito rectangular base
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high, 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high with base

Provenance

Private Collection, England; Art Market, London.

Exhibited

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1975-1982.
C. Avery and M. Hall, Giambologna: An Exhibition of Sculpture by the Master and his Followers from the Collection of Michael Hall, Esq., Salander O'Reilly Gallleries, New York, 1998, no. 55.
Giambologna and his Followers: Sculpture from the Collections of Michael Hall, Miami-Dade College Museum of Art, Freedom Tower, 9 October 2009-20 February 2010.

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
P. Evelyn, 'Hubert Le Sueur's equestrian bronzes at the Victoria and Albert Museum,' The Burlington Magazine, 1995, vol. CXXXVII, pp. 85-92.

The dynamic and unusual pose of this soldier suggests that it was originally part of a larger composition -- probably an equestrian group. Peta Motture, in her article on the Le Sueur equestrian group in the Victoria and Albert Museum, reunites a similarly terrified soldier with its original horse and rider (Evelyn, loc. cit.).

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