AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS LESPINGOLA (1644-1705), FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

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Lot 42 | AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS LESPINGOLA (1644-1705), FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS LESPINGOLA (1644-1705), FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Apollo and Daphne
bronze group; on a later ormolu-mounted ebony, tortoiseshell and pewter 'Boulle' marquetry base
17 ¾ in. (45 cm.) high; 25 5/8 in. (65 cm.) high, overall




Provenance

Louis-Gabriel-Albert Watel-Dehaynin (1885–1972), hôtel Watel-Dehaynin, avenue Foch, Paris, from whom acquired by the present owner.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
W. Holzhausen, 'Die Bronzen Augustus des Starken in Dresden', in Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, Berlin, 1939, p. 176, fig. 14.
H. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten des 15. bis 18. Jh., Braunschweig, 1967, p. 413, fig. 497.
M. Knoedler, The French Bronze 1500-1800, New York, 1968, no. 33.
U. Berger, V. Krahn, Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, Katalog der Sammlung, Braunschweig, 1994, pp. 321-3, no. 262.
G. Bresc-Bautier et G. Scherf eds., Bronzes Français - de la Renaissance au Siècle des Lumières, Paris, Louvre Museum, October 2008 - January 2009, pp. 294-304.
P. Malgouyres, 'Les bronzes décoratifs à Paris autour de 1700: A propos des groupes attribués à François Lespingola' in French Bronze Sculpture - Materials and Techniques 16th - 18th Century, London, 2014, pp. 139-49.
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