Lot 72
  • 72

Attributed to Willem Van Tetrode (c.1530-1587), Netherlandish, late 16th century

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Description

  • a bronze figure of a flagellator
on later wood socle

Provenance

Cyril Humphris Collection, Sotheby's New York, 11 January 1995, lot 130

Catalogue Note

Derived from bronzes after Giambologna, compare in particular with the twisted torso of Hercules in Giambologna's group of Hercules and the dragon and his genre figures such as the bird catcher who wear contemporary clothing. However the animated facial features and detail of the clothing of the flagellator are more characteristic of northern bronzes of the late 16th century, suggesting a sculptor of northern origin who had worked in Florence. Willem Danielsz van Tetrode is known to have worked in Rome in the late 1550's and Florence in the early 1560's before returning to his native Delft. The face of the flagellator can be compared to the head of Antaeus from the bronze group ascribed to Tetrode. Compare also with the engraving illustrated beneath of a naked flagellator after Tetrode in the Rijksprentekabinett,  Amsterdam.

RELATED LITERATURE
H.R.Weihrauch op.cit. pp.343-45, fig.417; A.Radcliffe, 'Schardt, Tetrode and some possible sculptural sources for Goltzius' in Netherlandish Mannerism, Stockholm 1985, pp.97-108; F.Scholten, Willem van Tetrode, Sculptor, exh.cat. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2003, p.61