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Property from a New York Private Collector

Joseph Nollekens (1737 - 1823 London) English, circa 1770

Paetus and Arria

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January 27, 09:38 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Property from a New York Private Collector

Joseph Nollekens (1737 - 1823 London)

English, circa 1770

Paetus and Arria


terracotta

height 7 ⅛ in.; 18cm.

The Estate of the Joseph Nollekens, Christie's London, 5 July 1823, lot 71; 
Sotheby's London, 18 March 1976, lot 197 (there attributed to Nollekens but as "Virginius and his daughter", with associated Flemish boxwood plinth bearing old label inscribed Virginius and his daughter, Modelled by Flaxman);
With Cyril Humphris, London;
Important Terracotta and Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Sotheby's New York, 29 January 2010, lot 511.
London, Royal Academy, 1771, no. 141;
Washington D.C., New York, Cambridge, Charles Avery, with Alastair Laing, Fingerprints of the artist: European terra-cotta sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections, 1981, no. 115, (illus.);
New York, James David Draper, European Terracottas from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, (exhibition catalogue), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981, no. 54;
Chicago, Ian Wardropper, European Terracotta Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections: the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibition catalogue, 9 December 1987 - 6 March 1998, no. 21;
Paris, New York, and Stockholm, James David Draper and Guilhem Scherf, European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840, exhibition catalogue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003-2004, no. 105, (illus.).
J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Terracotta Models by Joseph Nollekens, RA' in the Sculpture Journal 2, 1998, pp. 72-84, no. 5 (illus.).