A GILT-BRONZE BUST OF THE YOUNG BACCHUS

CAST FROM A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH NOLLEKENS (1737-1823), LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GILT-BRONZE BUST OF THE YOUNG BACCHUS
CAST FROM A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH NOLLEKENS (1737-1823), LATE 18TH CENTURY
On a rectangular black marble socle; wear to the gilding; other minor damages
10 in. (25.3 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34.2 cm.) high, overall

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
I. Roscoe et al, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 905, no. 193.

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Lot Essay

This delightful head of the young Bacchus is virtually identical to a marble bust attributed to Joseph Nollekens in Sizergh Castle, Cumbria. Although the Sizergh bust only has a traditional attribution to Nollekens, Roscoe notes in her entry on Nollekens (loc. cit.) that in circa 1800 he carved a bust of the Young Bacchus that is apparently unpublished and presently in a private collection.

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