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An Italian bronze figure of Bacchus after the antique, 17th century, probably Rome
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- bronze
golden patina beneath black lacquer, upon later stepped marble plinth.
Literature
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 8, pp. 32-33
Catalogue Note
A version of the present model was among the bronzes ordered by Louis XIV from Italy in 1664, first registered in the journal of the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne in 1669 (see Les Bronzes de la Couronne, p. 13 and no. 45). A reduction of the ancient marble Faun from the Giustiniani collection in Rome, one of several 1st/2nd century copies after a Praxitelean original (see Haskel and Penny, Taste and the Antique, p. 210), it has been adapted to represent Bacchus with the addition of a cluster of grapes in the right hand. A version was exhibited in Natur und Antike in der Renaissance, 1985, and was there&nꦡbsp;given to Pietro da Barga (no. 135), and another was sold at Sotheby's London, July 11, 2001, lo⛦t 120.