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FRANCESCO FANELLI (FLORENCE, 1577-APRÈS 1657)

Lot 26
21.11.2024 16:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 26 | FRANCESCO FANELLI (FLORENCE, 1577-APRÈS 1657)
Estimate value
€ 12 000 – 18 000
FRANCESCO FANELLI (FLORENCE, 1577-APRÈS 1657)
Cheval bondissant
bronze, reposant sur un socle postérieur en marbre vert
H. 19,1 cm (7 ½ in.), H. totale : 23,4 cm (9 3/16 in.)




Provenance

Avec David Peel & Co.
Camilla Dodge, Londres, 1960.
Avec Patricia Wengraf, Londres.
D'où acquis directement par Claudia Quentin, 1994.



Exhibited

New York, The Frick Collection, European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection, 28 septembre 2004-2 janvier 2005, pp. 210-213, no. 20.



Further Details

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A LEAPING HORSE, BY FRANCESCO FANELLI

An exceptionally fine cast, the Quentin bronze is the most lively known of this model. It is one of the few casts in which the horse can be described as 'leaping'. Fanelli used a similar, less frisky 'running' horse to serve as the mount of St George Slaying the Dragon, and the same 'running' horse reappears in his groups of Cupid on Horseback and Cupid beside a Running Horse. In 1640, casts of all three compositions were recorded in the collection of Charles I at Whitehall by Abraham van der Doort: "Don by francisco ffanello ... a little runing horse Cupid sitting on and another Cupid runing by wch was made by ffrancisco the one eyed Italian", and "Done by th'aforesaid One eyed Italian ffrancisco: a little St George on horseback wth a Dragon by".

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, owned ten small-scale equestrian bronzes by Fanelli, seen by George Vertue at Welbeck in 1727, one of which he described as "a horse full gallop". The main difference between the 'galloping' and the 'leaping' horse is in the degree of levitation, for the former 'galloping' see the one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. No. 1982.60.113). Unlike other designs of horses by Fanelli, this model would seem to recall Hubert Le Sueur's (c. 1580-c. 1660) equestrian statuette of Henri IV of France, before 1625 and now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (inv. No. A.46-1951). The stylised gait of these animals has been caught at almost the same moment of the stride.

Please note a scanned copy of the full catalogue entry from the catalogue of the 2004 Quentin Collection exhibition at The Frick Collection, New York, is available upon request.
Artist:Francesco Fanelli (1577 - 1662)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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