CAST FROM A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ATTRIBUTED TO GIANFRANCESCO SUSINI (1585-1653), AFTER 1624 - photo 1
CAST FROM A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ATTRIBUTED TO GIANFRANCESCO SUSINI (1585-1653), AFTER 1624 - photo 2
CAST FROM A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ATTRIBUTED TO GIANFRANCESCO SUSINI (1585-1653), AFTER 1624 - photo 3
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CAST FROM A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ATTRIBUTED TO GIANFRANCESCO SUSINI (1585-1653), AFTER 1624 - photo 5

CAST FROM A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ATTRIBUTED TO GIANFRANCESCO SUSINI (1585-1653), AFTER 1624

Lot 25
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 800 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1250831
Lot 25 | CAST FROM A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ATTRIBUTED TO GIANFRANCESCO SUSINI (1585-1653), AFTER 1624
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
CAST FROM A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA (1529-1608), ATTRIBUTED TO GIANFRANCESCO SUSINI (1585-1653), AFTER 1624
Nessus and Deianira
bronze, with extensive traces of a reddish gold lacquer; on an associated rectangular ebonised wood base
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high; 23 in. (58.4 cm.) high, overall




Provenance

Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874), Mentmore Towers,
Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery (1851-1890),
The 6th Earl of Rosebery, until sold, Mentmore sale, Sotheby's, 19 May 1977, lot 325, where acquired by the father of the present owner,
and by descent.



Literature

Probably that listed as a bronze 'Group of a Centaur carrying off a woman' in the Mentmore [privately printed catalogue], vol. I, Edinburgh, 1884, p. 170, no.16.
J. Auersperg, Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture from the Cecil Lewis Collection, A Catalogue, 1993, pp. 32-33.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Baldinucci, Notizie dei professori del disegno, Florence, 1681-88, Ranalli ed., Florence 1846, reprinted 1974, IV, pp. 110-111.
G. Pampaloni, Il Palazzo Portinari-Salviati, Florence, 1960, pp. 48-49, pl. XIII.
C. Avery, Giambologna - The Complete Sculpture, 1987, pp. 144-145, 264, no. 91.
B. Paolozzi Strozzi and D. Zikos, ed., Giambologna - gli dei, gli eroi, 2006, pp. 170-171, nos. 6 and 7.
A. Kugel, Les Bronzes du Prince de Liechtenstein, Chefs d’oeuvre de la Renaissance and du Baroque, exh. cat., Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, 2008.



Exhibited

London, Victoria and Albert Museum; Edinburgh, Royal Museum of Scotland; and Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Giambologna, Sculptor to the Medici, 1978, no. 65, p. 115.
Artist:Giovanni Francesco Susini (1585 - 1653)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
Genre:Mythological painting
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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