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拍品专文
The present beautifully finished bronze is derived from a composition by Anselme Flamen (1647-1717), itself based upon an antique marble known as Diana of Versailles. As Haskell and Penny point out (loc. cit.), the marble was first recorded in 1586 in Fontainebleau, but was later moved under Louis XIV to the Grande Galerie at Versailles and finally to the Louvre in 1789. The image depicted here follows a compositional format favored in France, and artists such as Antoine Coysevox, Van Clève and Cayot realized full size marble and versions in bronze.
When the present example of this celebrated bronze was sold Christie's, London, 6 April 1938, it was associated with the circle of Francesco Primaticcio and Germain Pilon. A similar bronze was exhibited at The French Bronze at Knoedler's in 1968 with anonymous attribution, although correctly associated with the 17th century.
François Souchal first recognized the connection between the present bronze and Flamen's marble statue of Diane of 1693-1694, designed for the park at Marly and placed in the centre of the fountain of Diana. The marble was acquired by the Louvre at the sale of the collection the Vicomtesse René Vigier in 1970 (Maral, op. cit., cat. 153, p. 138). The bronze is likely based on a model in wax or terracotta for the marble, and differs from it in various minor respects. A preparatory drawing in Berlin (Souchal, op. cit., p. 285, fig. 32,ii) shows what must be a still earlier conception, in which the goddess held aloft an arrow, as opposed to her bow, and a wild boar's head is nestled at her feet alongside her faithful hound. Most of the marble figures were made in bronze for the decorative market in Paris in the late 17th and early 18th century. The present bronze is known in at least two other casts, one formerly in the Museum at Charleston, South Carolina, the other last recorded in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and previously in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
When the present example of this celebrated bronze was sold Christie's, London, 6 April 1938, it was associated with the circle of Francesco Primaticcio and Germain Pilon. A similar bronze was exhibited at The French Bronze at Knoedler's in 1968 with anonymous attribution, although correctly associated with the 17th century.
François Souchal first recognized the connection between the present bronze and Flamen's marble statue of Diane of 1693-1694, designed for the park at Marly and placed in the centre of the fountain of Diana. The marble was acquired by the Louvre at the sale of the collection the Vicomtesse René Vigier in 1970 (Maral, op. cit., cat. 153, p. 138). The bronze is likely based on a model in wax or terracotta for the marble, and differs from it in various minor respects. A preparatory drawing in Berlin (Souchal, op. cit., p. 285, fig. 32,ii) shows what must be a still earlier conception, in which the goddess held aloft an arrow, as opposed to her bow, and a wild boar's head is nestled at her feet alongside her faithful hound. Most of the marble figures were made in bronze for the decorative market in Paris in the late 17th and early 18th century. The present bronze is known in at least two other casts, one formerly in the Museum at Charleston, South Carolina, the other last recorded in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and previously in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.