Elias de Witte, known as Elias Candido (Bruges before 1548 - 1574 Florence) Italian, Florence, circa 1600

Running Boy

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January 30, 08:10 PM GMT

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6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Elias de Witte, known as Elias Candido (Bruges before 1548 - 1574 Florence)

Italian, Florence, circa 1600

Running Boy

bronze, on a yellow marble socle

height 7 1/4 in.; 18.4cm.

Collection of Sir Leon Bagrit;
Trinity Fine Art, London

C. Avery, 'Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Alexis Gregory Collection,' Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, vol. IV, no. 1, fall 1995, exhibition catalogue, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 13 January - 22 June, pp. 66-67;
Patricia Wengraf Celebrates 40 Years of Fine Sculpture. European Bronzes and Terracottas, London 2018, no. 10, p. 52 (under variants)

This bronze cast is one of two models of boys: Boy Dancing, of which three variant casts are known, and Boy Running of which five casts are known. The prime example of the latter is the statuette in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.

This variant may have been inspired by Giambologna's early model of Mercury running forward, now in Sweden, which was a theme also adopted by Adrien de Vries.

RELATED LITERATURE

N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum. 1540 to the Present-Day, vol. I Italian, Oxford 1992, p. 22;

C. Avery, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 1993, cat. no. 27, pp. 98, 99