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ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO SUSINI (1558-1624), AFTER A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608)

Lot 11
03.12.2024 13:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 200 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 11 | ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO SUSINI (1558-1624), AFTER A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO SUSINI (1558-1624), AFTER A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608)
The Cesarini Venus
bronze; on an integrally cast square plinth and on a square ebonised wood base; the underside of the base with two paper labels, one inscribed 'M / 660', the other '400'
13 ¼ in. (33.5 cm.) high; 19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) high, overall




Provenance

Private collection, Austria, until 2024, when bequeathed to the present owners.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
J. von Schlosser, Werke der Kleinplastik in der Skulpturensammlung des A. H. Kaiserhauses, Vienna, I, 1910, p. 10.
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, eds., Giambologna (1529-1608): Sculptor to the Medici, London, 1978, p. 62.
C. Avery, Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture, Frome, Somerset, 1987, pp. 97-107, 254, no. 12.
A. Radcliffe, Giambologna's Cesarini Venus, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1993, pp. 15-16.
A. Radcliffe, 'Giambologna's "Venus" For Giangiorgio Cesarini: A Recantation, La Scultura: Studi in Onore Di Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki, A. González-Palacios, II, 1996, p. 64.
S. Sturman, 'A Group of Giambologna Female Nudes: Analysis and Manufacture,' Small Bronzes in the Renaissance, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 131, 133.
M. Leithe-Jasper and P. Wengraf, European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2004, pp. 146-157, no. 12.
W. Seipel, ed., Giambologna: Triumph des Körpers, exhibition catalogue, Vienna, 2006, no. 21, pp. 15-19, 196-198, 203.



Exhibited

Very likely the example exhibited in De Triomf van het Maniërisme: een Europese stijl van Michelangelo tot El Greco, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, July - October 1955, p. 162, no. 303.
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