A RECTANGULAR BRONZE RELIEF OF BACCHANALIAN INFANTS PLAYING WITH A GOAT

AFTER FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY (1594-1643), PROBABLY ITALIAN, 18TH CENTURY

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A RECTANGULAR BRONZE RELIEF OF BACCHANALIAN INFANTS PLAYING WITH A GOAT
AFTER FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY (1594-1643), PROBABLY ITALIAN, 18TH CENTURY
In a moulded giltwood frame
14¼ x 8¼ in. (36.4 x 21 cm.); 21¾ x 15¼ in. (55.3 x 39.2 cm.) overall

Provenance

Probably Thornton's, York, circa 1954 as 'After J M Clodion'.

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
M. Boudon-Machuel, Francois du Quesnoy 1597-1643, Paris, 2005.

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Lot Essay

Duquesnoy created multiple versions of this scene, which became very popular in French and Flemish painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was reproduced in the works of Gerrit Dou and Jean-Baptist-Simeon Chardin (Boudon-Machuel, op. cit, figs. 198-201). There is a version in bronze in the Skulpturensammlung in Dresden and in marble in the Palazzo Doria Pamphili in Rome (ibid, figs. 33 and 34).

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