WORKSHOP OF GIROLAMO CAMPAGNA (ACTIVE 1572-1625), CIRCA 1590

Details

A BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS
WORKSHOP OF GIROLAMO CAMPAGNA (ACTIVE 1572-1625), CIRCA 1590
With an integrally cast circular plinth and later square molded ebonized wood base
14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm.) high; 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 14 July 1972, lot 92.

Literature

M. Schwartz, ed., European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, pp. 108-109, no. 51.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
W. Timofiewitsch, Girolamo Campagna: Studien zur venezianischen Plastik um das Jahr 1600, Munich, 1972.
V. Krahn, Bronzetti Veneziani – Die venezianschen Kleinbronzen der Renaissance aus dem Bode –Museum Berlin, 2003, nos. 36-37, 40.

Exhibited

San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 3 Mar. – 11 Sep. 1988, L. Camins ed., 1988, pp. 48-49, no. 13.