Property from a Private Collection
Italian, possibly Venice, 16th century
Cristo Vivo
Lot Closed
January 30, 07:13 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Italian, possibly Venice, 16th century
Cristo Vivo
gilt bronze
height from head to toe 10 1/8 in., 25.7cm.
The Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York;
Sotheby's New York, 26 January 2012, lot 289
Sotheby's New York, 26 January 2012, lot 289
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, March 3-September 11, 1988, cat. no. 11
L. Camins, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, San Francisco, 1988, no. 11, pp. 43-45;
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 42, p. 95
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 42, p. 95
The design of the present corpus is loosely based upon a drawing by Michelangelo now in the British Museum (1895,0915.504). The expression and elongated limbs have been associated with the Venetian followers of Jacopo Sansovino.