MASSIMILIANO SOLDANI-BENZI (MONTEVARCHI 1656 -1740 MONTEVARCHI), FLORENCE, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Lot 26
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Lot 26 | MASSIMILIANO SOLDANI-BENZI (MONTEVARCHI 1656 -1740 MONTEVARCHI), FLORENCE, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
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£ 100 000 – 200 000
MASSIMILIANO SOLDANI-BENZI (MONTEVARCHI 1656 -1740 MONTEVARCHI), FLORENCE, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Bust of a smiling faun
bronze; on its original white marble waisted socle with polychrome marble inlay attributed to the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (Grand Ducal workshops, Florence)
15 1/8 in. (38.5 cm.) high; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) high, overall




Provenance

Private collection, London.
With Daniel Katz, Ltd. from whom acquired by the present owner in 2003.



Literature

S. Zanuso and D. Zikos, 'Tre busti in bronzo dal legato De Cristoforis al Castello Sforzesco', in Rassegna di studi e di notizie, XXIII, 1999, p. 343, fig. 19.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ackland Art Museum Handbook, 1983, p. 60.
C. Avery, Baroque Sculpture and Medals in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1998, pp. 32-68.
K. Lankheit 'Massimo Soldani (Benzi)' in J. Turner, ed., The Dictionary of Art, New York, 1996, vol. XXIX, pp.28-30.
G. Pratesi, ed., Repertorio della Scultura Fiorentina del Seicento e Settecento, Turin, 1993, vol. I, pp.59-60, vol. III, pls. 491-590.
R. Coppel Aréizaga, Catálogo de la Escultura de Época Moderna - Siglos XVI - XVIII, Madrid, 1998, p. 332.
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