Important European Terracotta & Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections

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Lot 439
  • 439

After a model by Alessandro Algardi

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Alessandro Algardi
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt

  • gilt bronze relief

  • height 10 1/2 in., width 13 3/8 in.; 26.7 cm, 33.7 cm

Provenance

Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome; Galleria Corsini, Florence; Heim Gallery, London

Catalogue Note

RELATED LITERATURE

Montagu 1985, p. 307

Although there is no documentary evidence to support the attribution of the present composition to Algardi, or indeed to date it, his authorship is not in doubt. Montagu (op. cit.), who associates the invention with the Ecstacy of the Magdalen, of 1635, further points out that it was extremely popular, and lists no less than 17 variants in different media.