ID 1126159
Lot 7 | CIRCLE OF ANDREA RICCIO (CIRCA 1470–1532), PADUA, CIRCA 1530
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
SEATED FAUN WITH SYRINX
bronze with silver-inlaid eyes
7 ¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high; 7 ½ in. (19.1 cm.) long, the bronze
Provenance
Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), Neuilly-sur-Seine and Paris, (almost certainly).
His sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 February 1857, lot 128, as Une figurine de Satyre assis jouant de la flûte de Pan.
de Cambourd, acquired at the above sale.
Georges Salmann, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 July 2004, lot 37.
Acquired at the above sale.
Literature
B. Jestaz, 'Desiderio da Firenze: Bronzier à Padoue au XVIe siècle, ou le faussaire de Riccio,' Monuments et mémoires de la fondation Eugène Piot 84, Paris, 2005, 166-168, figs. 74 and 75, illustrated.
J. Warren, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Italian Sculpture, London, 2016, vol. 1, pp. 11, 23, no. 128.
Exhibited
New York, The Frick Collection, European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection, 28 September 2004-2 January 2005, not in exh. cat.
New York, The Frick Collection, Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze, 18 October 2008-18 January 2009, pp. 246-251, no. 24.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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