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After Giovanni Battista Foggini

Laocoön and his Sons

Auction Closed

December 10, 04:34 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

After Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725), after the antique

Probably French, first half 18th century

Laocoön and his Sons

bronze, with a modulated red-green patina

stamped with the owner Pyotr Arkadievich Kochubey's mark: PK, numbered 1 in white paint, and further inscribed: 60 and 225 to the reverse

57.5 by 44cm., 22⅝ by 17¼in.

Please not that the PK monogram on this bronze refers to the Russian collector Peter Kochubey. A full provenance can be consulted in our online catalogue | Please note this lot will go to the warehouse after the auction.

Probably from the collection of Prince Alexander Andreevich Bezborodko (1747-1799)

Probably by descent to his brother Ilya Andreevich Bezborodko (1756–1815)

Probably by descent to his daughter Lyubov (1783–1809), who married Count Grigory Grigorievich Kushelev (1754-1833)

Probably by descent to their son Count Alexander Grigorievich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1800-1855)

Probably by descent to his daughter Varvara (1829-1896), who married Pyotr Arkadievich Kochubey (1825-1892)

By descent to their son Vasily Petrovitch Kochubey (Basile Kotschoubey)

His sale Paris, Drouot, 13-16 June, 1906, lot 346 (commissaire-priseur: F. Lair-Dubreuil; experts: M. Paulme, B. Lasquin and G. Legay)

Acquired by the antique dealer, Georges Seligman, Place Vendôme, Paris, for 3600 francs

Private collection, France since 1979