attached to a later circular base and plinth cast with winged dragons and seated satyrs.

Sold Sotheby's London, July 7, 1988, lot 65

RELATED LITERATURE

H. R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten, Braunschweig, 1967, p.143, fig. 164

W. Timofiewitsch,Girolamo Campagna- Studien zur venezanische Plastik um des Jahr 1600,Munich, 1972, pp.246-261, no. 5, figs.34-37

Donatello e il suo tempo- il bronzetto  a Padova nel Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento (exh.cat.), Musei Civici, Padua,&ꦏnbsp;April 8- July 15, 2001, pp.301-13ꦆ 

 

 

Standard wear/surface abrasions. Dark brown/black opaque lacquer is flaking and there is a nice light brown patina underneath it. Old repaired casting flaws on her proper right ankle and heel area. Some old repair (from original flaws) beneath her proper left foot. Minor stable casting cracks on his toes. Probably some old repair at her proper left elbow area. The later base with wear and loss to one dragon's head.
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Weihrauch (op.cit.) convincingly attributed this composition to Danese Cattaneo, a Tuscan pupil of Sansovinꦓo and master of Girolamo Campagna, and he recorded three other versions in Cleveland, Reichenberg and Chicago.

Compare an allegorical figure executed by Cattaneo, for the tomb of Doge Leonardo Loredan (Donatello, op.cit., p.307). The figure type and stance as well🌠 as the treatment of the hands and feet, the heavy lidded eyes, pointed chin and centrally parted hair drawn into a abundant curls at the crown of the head are 𝔍all directly comparable to the present bronze.