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Lot Essay
A related marble of 1726, depicting three playful putti with comparable short rounded bodies, and heavy upper eyelids and pursed lips, is in the Rijksmuseum (Leeuwenberg, loc. cit.). A drawing by Baurscheit in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, shows a very similar group differing only in that the drapery has been slightly altered and the tortoise is missing (Basier, loc. cit.).
Another related group of Dancing Children was at Clumber Park in the possession of The Hon. Earl of Lincoln and sold at Christie's London, 19 October 1937, lot 393.
The group would have been part of a larger ensemble by Baurscheit that has been separated. It is possible that the current group represents the playful interaction of spring and summer, and would have had as a pendant a similar group of winter and autumn.
Another related group of Dancing Children was at Clumber Park in the possession of The Hon. Earl of Lincoln and sold at Christie's London, 19 October 1937, lot 393.
The group would have been part of a larger ensemble by Baurscheit that has been separated. It is possible that the current group represents the playful interaction of spring and summer, and would have had as a pendant a similar group of winter and autumn.