Italy, Florence
1725
Bronze
32 cm (12 ⁵/₈ inches)

Provenance

Possibly Medici collection, Florence.
Private collection, Denmark.
Art market, France.

Literature

K. Lankheit, “Eine Serie barocker Antiken-Nachbildungen aus der Werkstatt des Massimiliano Soldani”, inMitteilungen des deutschen archäologischen Instituts Römische Abteilung, 65, 1958, pp. 186-97C. Avery, “Soldani’s small bronze statuettes after ‘Old Master’ Sculptures in Florence”, in Kunst des Barock in der Toskana,Munich, 1976, pp. 165-72 (reprinted in C. Avery, Studies in European Sculpture, London, 1981, pp. 122-32) .C. Avery, “Bronze statuettes by Soldani after ‘Old Master’ sculptures in the Uffizi Gallery and elsewhere in Florence”, in The Ian and Margaret Ross Collection: Baroque Sculpture and Medals,Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1988, pp. 41-45, 63-64, no. 18.

Detail Description

With the number 326, possibly from a Medici inventory, painted in black underneath the plinth.