Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Washington, D.C.
Attributed to Desiderio da Firenze (active 1532-1545) After a model by Severo da Ravenna Veneto, circa 1530-1540
inkwell in the form of a kneeling Satyr
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Description
Attributed to Desiderio da Firenze (active 1532-1545)
After a model by Severo da Ravenna
Veneto, circa 1530-1540
inkwell in the form of a kneeling Satyr
bronze
typed label A-64 on the underside
height 8 5/8 in.; 22cm.
The satyr rests on one knee, while with his right hand he holds a cornucopia which was originally surmounted by a candle nozzle, his hair is vigorously chiseled and the surface is lightly hammered on his chest . His left hand rests on the lip of a shell-form vessel.
Although originally attributed to Riccio by Planisicig (1927), it was later accepted that the original model for this kneeling satyr was produced by Severo da Ravenna. However in the present example, the precise cast is very different to those generally accepted as Severo and in fact it can be closely compared to that of the figure Pan listening to Echo in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford as well as a further example of Pan sold in these rooms 9th July 2004 lot 37 and another in these rooms 6 July 2007, lot 61. The same thick walled cast and the treatment to the body with hammered surface, raised nipples are comparable as is the tousled hair.
In 1998 Jeremy Warren reattributed the figure of Pan listening to Echo to Desiderio da Firenze based on its close technical and stylistic similarities to the securely documented Voting Urn commissioned by the great Council of the Commune di Padua and now in the Museo Civico. Scholten also concurs with this attribution in his cataloguing of a fine cast in the Lehman collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (op.cit., no. 18).
RELATED LITERATURE
L. Planiscig, Riccio, Vienna, 1927, pp.343- 346, fig 419;
J. Pope-Hennessy and Anthony Radcliffe, The Frick Collection , Vol. III, New York 1970, p.81 and 87;
J. Warren, “The Faun who Plays on the Pipes”, in Small Bronzes in the Renaissance, New Haven and London, 2001, no. 17, pp.81-103;
M. Leither-Jasper & P. Wengraf, European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York September 2004 - January 2005, cat. 5, pp. 90-97;
Frits Scholten, European Sculpture and Metalwork, The Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton, 2011, cat. no. 18