Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold🌌 to Benefit the Alexi🅺s Gregory Foundation
Attributed to Barthélemy Prieur (Berzieux circa 1536 - 1611 Paris) French, late 16th/early 17th century
Bacchus with a Panther
Lot Closed
January 30, 07:44 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Barthélemy Prieur (Berzieux♛ ♑circa 1536 - 1611 Paris)
French, late 16th/early 17th century
Bacchus with a Panther
b🐲ronze🐎, on porphyry socle with ormolu-mounted porphyry base
height figure 8 7/8 in.; 22.5cm.
height overall 12 5/8 in.; 32cm.
From whom acquired July 2013
This bronze figure of Bacchus is an adaptation of the classical marble group of a satyr with a panther in the Villa Albani, Rome. Previously attributed by Planiscig to Francesco da Sant'Agata and by Weihrauch to a late 16th century Floreꦏntine workshop working under the influence of Cellini, this bronze has sꦜince firmly been ascribed to Barthélemy Prieur by Maraike Bückling and Regina Seelig-Teuwen.
Related casts of this compo꧟sition are known including examples in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Ro🤡bert H. Smith Collection, Washington, D.C.
RELATED LITERATURE:
L. Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance, Vienna 1921, fig.320 (without the panther);
H.R. Weihrauch, Die Bildwerke in Bronze, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich 1956 no. 266;&🍸nbsp;
M. Buckling, Die Negervenus, Liebie🥂ghaus Monographie, 14, Frankfurt am Main✱ 1991, p.44;
A. Radcliffe, The Robert H. Smith Collection, Bronzes 1500-1650, London, 1994, no. 30