After Giambologna (1529-1608), Italian, Florence, early 17th century

This delicate bronze follows a model by Giambologna presumed by Avery (op. cit.) to have been conceived as early as the 1550s. Based on ancient prototypes of the crouching Venus, the model is likely to represent a nymph interrupted at her bath by a satyr, who may have formed a pendant to this composition. An early cast of the model is in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.

RELATED LITERATURE
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, Giambologna: Sculptor to the Medici, exh. cat., London, 1978, p. 76, nos. 21 and 22