European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
European Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, Sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
A Pair of Venetian Baroque Carved Ebony Sculptures, Circle of Andrea Brustolon, Late 17th/Early 18th Century
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April 12, 02:49 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, Sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
A Pair of Venetian Baroque Carved Ebony Sculptures, Circle of Andrea Brustolon, Late 17th/Early 18th Century
On modern ebonized wood pedestals.
height without pedestals 35 and 36 in.
89 and 91.5 cm.
Rothschild Collection, France
Philippe de Nicolay, Le Haras d'Estimauville, Normandy, France
Christie's Paris, 26-27 October 2010, lot 368
Tomasso Brothers, London 2012
Alexis Gregory, New York
Moors have been depicted in various art forms in Western Europe for centuries, but it was really with the strengthening of trade links between Africa and Asia in the latter part of the 17th century that the fashion for depicting Moors developed. In particular, Venice, with its vast maritime trading empire, specialized in this kind of representation. The figures here are similar to a work by Andrea Brustolon (1662-1732). These figures offer many characteristic aspects of the artist's work, both in their acrobatic positions, their eyes encrusted with mother-of-pearl and in the treatment of the hair and the body.