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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED NUDE WOMAN BRAIDING HER HAIR

Lot 207
27.01.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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ID 887727
Lot 207 | A BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED NUDE WOMAN BRAIDING HER HAIR
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 500 000
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED NUDE WOMAN BRAIDING HER HAIR

BARTHÉLEMY PRIEUR (C. 1536-1611), CIRCA 1600-1610

On a rectangular molded ebonized wood base, inscribed in white paint '31289.39'

7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high





Provenance

Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973) and Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955), New York, Redding, CT and Brookgreen Plantation, SC.

The Charleston Museum, Charleston, 1931 (acc. no. 1931.289.39), gifted by the above.

de-accessioned and sold; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 28 October 1967, lot 25, as Netherlandish Figure of Venus.

Peter Guggenheim (1927-2012) and John Abbott (1925-2020), New York and Warwick, NY, acquired at the above sale.

Their sale; Christie's, New York, 28 January 2015, lot 62.

Acquired at the above sale and now offered from the estate of the purchaser.



Literature

M. Schwartz, ed., European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, pp. 170-171, no. 90, illustrated, as Seated Nude Braiding her Hair.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

J. G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues: Sculpture…, London, 1931, S 128, p. 48, plate 35.

W. Bode, The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, ed. and rev. by J. Draper, New York, 1980, p. 106, CCXV.

Musèe du Louvre, Les Bronzes de la Couronne, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1999 and 2001, p. 182, no. 321.

G. Bresc-Bautier, G. Scherf and J. Draper, eds., Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2009, pp. 102-147.



Exhibited

Charleston, Charleston Museum, Huntington Room, circa 1941.

San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 3 March-11 September 1988, pp. 170-171, no. 90, illustrated, as Seated Nude Braiding her Hair.
Artist:Barthélemy Prieur (1536 - 1611)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Place of origin:Italy
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