AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA | ITALIAN OR NETHERLANDISH, 17TH/ EARLY 18TH CENTURY | NESSUS AND DEIANEIRA

Auction Closed

January 21, 06:17 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

KILLADOON HOUSE, PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT IRISH ESTATE

AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608)

ITALIAN OR NETHERLANDISH, 17TH/ EARLY 18TH CENTURY

NESSUS AND DEIANEIRA

bronze, on a black marble base

bronze: 40 by 30cm., 15¾ by 11⅞in.

base: 14.5 by 28 by 13.5cm., 5¾ by 11 by 5⅜in.

Probably acquired by Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim (1732-1804)

Inventory, 26th September 1807, the '1 bronze group...on chimneypiece' in the Library;

Inventory, 10th February 1812, the 'One Bronze group on Chimneypiece' in the Library;

Inventory, April 1830, the 'One Bronze Group on Chimney Piece' in the Library;

Inventory, 27th June 1836, the 'Bronze groupe over the chimney piece upon black marble pedestal the groupe references a centaur, a female figure from the antique' in the Library;

John Cornforth, 'Killadoon, Co Kildare - I', Country Life, 15 January 2004, p. 48;

The Knight of Glin and James Peill, The Irish Country House, China, 2010, p. 140.