Attributed to the workshop of Gianfrancesco Susini (1585 - circa 1653)
Peasant Resting on his Staff
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April 29, 01:47 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to the workshop of Gianfrancesco Susini (1585 - circa 1653)
After Giambologna (1529-1608)
Italian, Florence, circa 1630
Peasant Resting on his Staff
bronze, on a veined red marble base
bronze: 12.3 cm., 4⅞in.
base: 5 cm., 2 in.
New York, Carlton Hobbs LLC, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, Scultura IV, 2019
Scultura IV, exh. cat. Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London, 2019, no. 20
First documented in 1601, a silver model of the present figure was sent out on loan to Antonio Susini, presumably to serve for reproduction in bronze. The attribution of the model to Giambologna has been largely accepted based on further documentary evidence (see Avery and Radcliffe, op. cit.).
The present bronze varies from the casts associated with Antonio Susini by substituting the peasant's staff with a tree trunk. The fine stippling to the tree and the drapery indicate a possible origin in the workshop of Antonio's nephew, Gianfrancesco Susini.
RELATED LITERATURE
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe (eds.), Giambologna 1529-1608. Sculptor to the Medici, exh. cat. Arts Council of Britain and Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, London, 1978, p. 165, nos. 137 and 138
The present bronze varies from the casts associated with Antonio Susini by substituting the peasant's staff with a tree trunk. The fine stippling to the tree and the drapery indicate a possible origin in the workshop of Antonio's nephew, Gianfrancesco Susini.
RELATED LITERATURE
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe (eds.), Giambologna 1529-1608. Sculptor to the Medici, exh. cat. Arts Council of Britain and Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, London, 1978, p. 165, nos. 137 and 138