AFTER MODELS ATTRIBUTED TO MASSIMILIANO SOLDANI-BENZI (1656-1740) | PAIR OF BUSTS OF A FAUN AND A YOUNG MAN
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AFTER MODELS ATTRIBUTED TO MASSIMILIANO SOLDANI-BENZI (1656-1740)
FRENCH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
PAIR OF BUSTS OF A FAUN AND A YOUNG MAN
bronze, on ebonised wood socles
busts: 28cm., 11in. each
socles: 9.5cm., 3¾in. each
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Another pair of casts of these busts from Schloss Pommersfelden near Nuremberg was attributed to Soldani by Weihrauch (op. cit.). Weihrauch pointed out the similarity between the Pommersfelden busts and those documented as being by Soldani after the antique in the Liechtenstein collection.
RELATED LITERATURE
H. R. Weihrauch, review of K. Lankheit, Florentiner Barockplastik, Pantheon, November-December 1963, pp. 338-39, figs. 3-4; Scultura, exh. cat. Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, Leeds, 2008, pp. 104-105, no. 27