NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (GENOA, CIRCA 1560-1636 OR BEFORE, VENICE)
NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (GENOA, CIRCA 1560-1636 OR BEFORE, VENICE)
NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (GENOA, CIRCA 1560-1636 OR BEFORE, VENICE)
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NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (GENOA, CIRCA 1560-1636 OR BEFORE, VENICE)
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NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (GENOA, CIRCA 1560-1636 OR BEFORE, VENICE)

VENUS IN THE GUISE OF SILENCE

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NICOLÒ ROCCATAGLIATA (GENOA, CIRCA 1560-1636 OR BEFORE, VENICE)
VENUS IN THE GUISE OF SILENCE
bronze
9 1⁄8 in. (23.2 cm.) high, the bronze
来源
Trivulzio, Milan.
with Trinity Fine Art, Ltd., London, 1988 (attributed to Aspetti).
with Daniel Katz, London (attributed to Aspetti).
Züblin, Switzerland.
with Patricia Wengraf, Ltd., London, acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above, 2000.
出版
F. Scholten, L’Amour menaçant or Menacing Love: a statue by Falconet, Amsterdam, 2005, p. 16, fig. 18, illustrated with a detail.
展览
London, Trinity Fine Art, Ltd., An Exhibition of European Sculpture and Works of Art, 30 November-10 December 1988, pp. 26-27, no. 23, attributed to Aspetti, as Standing Figure of Venus.
New York, The Frick Collection, European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection, 28 September 2004-2 January 2005, pp. 102-107, no. 7.
更多详情
Please note a scanned copy of the full catalogue entry from the catalogue of the 2004 Quentin Collection exhibition at The Frick Collection, New York is available upon request.

荣誉呈献

Will Russell
Will Russell Specialist

拍品专文

This delightful bronze is as charming as it is mysterious. Venus is perhaps gesturing, or requesting silence, from an off-stage companion, possibly Cupid, as suggested in the 2004 exhibition catalogue from The Frick Collection. Her coquettish contrapposto posture suggests some amorous complicity.

No other cast of the present composition is known. However, there is a closely related group by Nicolò Roccatagliata of Astronomy in the Robert H. Smith Collection, now donated to the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Another similar figure, illustrated in the 2004 Frick catalogue, is the Roccatagliata group Venus Chastising Cupid, now in the Museo del Castello Buonconsiglio, Trentino. As Wengraf also notes in the Frick catalogue, these figures were previously attributed to Tiziano Aspetti, but Radcliffe subsequently proposed an attribution to Aspetti’s contemporary in Venice – the sculptor Roccatagliata – an attribution which has now been universally accepted. All of these female figures, with their wonderfully high arched eyebrows and heavily lidded eyes and dense, tied-up hairstyles are whimsically original and specific, as noted by Wengraf, but the present bronze, as a single figure rather than a larger composition, with her tall, turning body, presents an incredibly elegant and appealing composition.

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