Attributed to the workshop of Giuseppe Piamontini (Florence, 1664–1742) Italian, Florence, late 17th/early 18th century

Standard wear and minor surface abrasions throughout. Overall good condition.
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A pupil of Giovanni Battista Foggini in Florence and then of Ercole Ferrata in Rome, Piamontini was a proponent of Florentine Baroque sculpture. He worked extensively for the Medici, particularly for Ferdinando and Anna Maria Luisa, the Palatine Electress, for whom he cast several small bronzes.

The present figure of the young King of the Gods holding the thunderbolts in his upraised right hand relates directly to Piamontini’s small bronzes. The sculptor had a penchant for depicting small children or bacchantini, all of which are distinguished by their reddish brown patina and finely chiseled and varied surface textures. The body, facial type and idiosyncratic treatment of the hair seen here compare with those details in another bronze by Piamontini of two putti playing in the Corsini Gallery, Rome, another example of which sold at Sotheby’s, Paris  30 September 2011, lot 41.

RELATED LITERATURE
D. Zikos and (C. Orsi ed.), Giuseppe Piamontini, Il Sacrificio di Isaaco di Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Milan, 2005
S. Bellesi, I marmi di Giuseppe Piamontini, Florence, 2008, p. 63,
fig. 66