A BRONZE FIGURE OF CHRIST AT THE COLUMN

POSSIBLY FRENCH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Details

A BRONZE FIGURE OF CHRIST AT THE COLUMN
POSSIBLY FRENCH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
On a later green marble pedestal
6½ in. (16.5 cm) high, 9¾ in. (25 cm.) high wtih pedestal

Provenance

von Rhò Collection, Vienna.

Literature

E. Braun, Oesterreichische Privatsammlungen, I: Die Bronzen der Sammlung Guido von Rhò in Wien, Vienna, 1908, pl. XVII.

Exhibited

C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, eds. Giambologna, Sculptor to the Medici, exh. cat., Arts Council of Britain, London, 1978, no. 96.
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 Galleries, New York, 1998, no. 33.
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:
Opus Sacrum, Warsaw, 1990, pp. 308-310, no. 57.

This bronze, from the celebrated von Rhò collection in Vienna, was also exhibited in the 1978 landmark Giambologna exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. As Avery notes in the catalogue, the present bronze had been attributed to Giambologna on the strengths of the modeling of the body and the hands but is more likely by a younger follower (loc. cit.).

There are at least two other identical versions, both attributed to Antonio Susini, the first from the Beit Collection, was sold Christie's, London, 7 December 2006, lot 197 and another was formerly in the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection and exhibited at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

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