ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY | LUCRETIA
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December 3, 02:41 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY
LUCRETIA
bronze, on a black marble base with gilt metal and gilt plaster mounts
bronze: 25cm., 9⅞in.
base: 11cm., 4⅜in.
Further casts of this model are housed in Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. no. A.101-1956) and in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Penny, op. cit., no. 331), there paired with a male figure. A version in a private collection has been published with an attribution to Francesco Fanelli (Van Beneden, op. cit.).
RELATED LITERATURE
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day, vol. II, French and Other European Sculpture, Oxford, 1992, pp. 103-104; B. van Beneden and N. de Poorter (eds.), Royalist Refugees: William and Margaret Cavendish in the Rubens House 1648-1660, exh. cat. Rubenshuis, Antwerp, 2006, pp. 200-201, no. 60