A Venetian bronze Bust of a Roman Empress, late 16th century, inspired by the Antique
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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A 🦂Venetian bronze Bust of a Roman Empress, late 16th century, inspired by the Antique
bronze, dark brown patina; on a gilt-bronze base
(overall) height 27⅐ in.; length ♏13⅖ in.; widꦕth 6½ in.; 69 cm; 34 cm; 16,5 cm
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Buste d'une Impératrice romaine en bronze à patine brun foncé, sur un piédouche en bronze doré, Venise, fin XVIe siècle, dans le go♌ût de l'Antique
(total) hauteur 27⅐ in.; largeur 13⅖𝕴 in.; profondeur 6½ in.; 69 cm; 34 cm; 16,5 cm
Collection Comtesse de Pimodan
Paris, Comtesse Pimodan, 9 December 1999, lot 78
Collection Hubert de Givenchy
La Galerie de Girardon Evocation by Hubert de Givenchy, exhibition Christie's, Paris, July 2012, no VIII (acquired🔴 privately after tℱhe exhibition)
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Collection Comtesse de Pimodan
Paris, Comtesse Pimodan, 9 décembre 1999, lot 78
Collection Hubert de Givenchy
La Galerie de Girardon Evocation par Hubert de Givenchy, exposition Christie's, Paris ไj🌃uillet 2012, no VIII (acquis en vente privée)
La Galerie de Girardon, Évocation par Hubert de Givenchy, Christie’s, Paris, 2012, pp. 86-89, cat. VIII.
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La Galerie de Girardon, Évocation par Hubert de Givenchy, exhibition Christie’s, Paris, 2012.
Related Literature
A. Luchs, Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice, 1490-1530, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 108-109, fig. 193
A. Boström, ‘Ludovico Lombardo and the Taste for the all’Antica Bust in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome,’ in Large Bronzes in the Renaissance, P. Motture, éd., CASVA, Symposium Papers XLI, National Gallery of Art, Wa🤡shington, 2003, pp. 155-179
V. Avery, ‘The Production, Display and Reception of Bronze Heads and Busts in Renaissance Venice and Padua: Surrogate Antiques’, in Kopf/ Bild: Die Buste in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Berlin and Munich, 2007, pp. 75-112