Lot 11
  • 11

Bacchus en bronze à patine brun clair, Venise, début XVIIe, Atelier Nicolo Roccatagliata (1560 - vers 1636)

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Description

  • Bacchus en bronze à patine brun clair
  • Haut.(bronze) 25,5 cm; haut. totale 34 cm
  • Height (bronze) 10 in; total height 13 1/3 in
coiffé d'une couronne végétale et vêtu d'un pagne, il verse du vin dans une coupe tenue dans sa main droite ; son pied gauche est posé sur un tonneau ; sur un socle circulaire en marbre rouge

Literature

REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES:
H. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten, Braunschweig, 1967, p. 164, fig. 198.
V. Avery, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London, 2002, p. 314, n° 37.

Condition

Minor surface dust in the crevisses, a few casting holes at several places, and one fixing hole to his back. Very good condition overall.
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Catalogue Note

Oeuvre du sculpteur vénitien Nicolo Roccatagliata (1560-vers 1636), plusieurs versions de ce Bacchus sont connues, dont l'une au musée Klosterneuburg (cf. Weihrauch, op. cit), une autre version appartenait jadis à la collection Julius Goldschmidt (vente Sotheby's New York, 2006, lot 467), et une à la Henry Harris collection (cf. Avery, op. cit.).