Aurelio Lombardo, Italian, circa 1525
Dido
Auction Closed
January 29, 04:53 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Aurelio Lombardo
Venice 1501 - 1563 Recanati
Italian, circa 1525
Dido
inscribed on lower edge PVNICA SVM [DIDO ERE]XI QVAE MOENIA BYRSA
marble
19 5/8 by 10 3/8 in.; 49.8 by 51.7 cm.
Depth of base 3 3/8 in.; 8.5 cm.
Private Collection, England;
Henry Duke & Son, Dorchester, June 30, 1988;
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in association with Daniel Katz, Ltd., London;
Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, her sale, Christie's London, December 14, 1999,
lot 74;
Where acquired.
Henry Duke & Son, Dorchester, June 30, 1988;
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in association with Daniel Katz, Ltd., London;
Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, her sale, Christie's London, December 14, 1999,
lot 74;
Where acquired.
A. Markham Schulz, Giammaria Mosca..., 2 vols., University Park, Pennsylvania, 1998, no. 1, p. 61;
A. Luchs, "The London Woman in Anguish, attributed to Christoforo Solari: Erotic Pathos in a Renaissance Bust," Artibus et Historiae, no. 47, 2003, pp. 158, 159, 163 and 172, fig. 12;
M. Ceriana, Il camerino di alabastro: Antonio Lombardo e la scultura all'antica, Silvano Editoriale, Milan, 2004, pp. 97-109, 268-272, illus. pp. 269 and 271;
A. Sarchi, Antonio Lombardo, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, 2008, p. 372, pl. 162;
A. Luchs, Tvllio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, p. 120.
A. Luchs, "The London Woman in Anguish, attributed to Christoforo Solari: Erotic Pathos in a Renaissance Bust," Artibus et Historiae, no. 47, 2003, pp. 158, 159, 163 and 172, fig. 12;
M. Ceriana, Il camerino di alabastro: Antonio Lombardo e la scultura all'antica, Silvano Editoriale, Milan, 2004, pp. 97-109, 268-272, illus. pp. 269 and 271;
A. Sarchi, Antonio Lombardo, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, 2008, p. 372, pl. 162;
A. Luchs, Tvllio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009, p. 120.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September – December 2006 (long term loan).