Workshop of Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656 - 1740 Florence), 18th century

The present work, depicting a nude athlete, was one of the most successful of Soldani's single figure compositions. Fine casts of this model are in the Bargello, Florence, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich and the Hertog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Brunswick.

RELATED LITERATURE

M. Leithe Jasper, Bronzes from the Quentin Collection, exhibition catalogue, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004, pp. 262-7, no. 29;

J. Warren, Beauty and Power. Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection, exhibition catalogue, 9 October 2010 - 24 January 2011, Wallace Collection, Huntington Art Collections and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, London, 2010, pp. 216-25, no. 20;

E. Schmidt, et. al., Plasmato dal fuoco: La scultura in bronzo nella Firenze degli ultimi Medici, exhibition catalogue, Uffizi, Florence, 2019, pp. 294-297, 310-313, nos. 64, 65, 71.