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Materials:
Bronze
Measurements:
23.23 in. (59.00 cm.) (height)
Description:
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Markings:
inscribed 'GIO BOLONGE' on the rockwork base
Literature:
R. Borghini, Il Riposo, Florence, 1584.A. Desjardins, La vie et l´œuvre de Jean Bologne, d´après les manuscripts inèdits recueillis par M. Foucques de Vagnonville, Paris, 1883. E. Dhanens, Jean Boulogne Giovanni Bologna fiammingo Douai 1529 – Florence 1608. Bijdrage tot de studie van de kunstbetrekkingen tussen het graafschap Vlaanderen en Italië, Brüssel 1956 (Verhandelingen Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie vor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Klasse der Schone Kunsten, Brussels, 1956.H. R. Weihrauch, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München, Kataloge Band XIII,5, Die Bildwerke in Bronze und in anderen Metallen, Munich, 1956.D. Heikamp, ‘Zur Geschichte der Uffizien-Tribuna und der Kunstschränke in Florenz und Deutschland’, in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1963), vol. 26, p. 245, docs. 5 and 6.K. Watson and C. Avery, ‘Medici and Stuart: a Grand Ducal Gift of ‘Giovanni Bologna Bronzes for Henry, Prince of Wales (1612)’ in: The Burlington Magazine, 115, 1973, pp. 493–507.R. Bauer and H. Haupt, ‘Das Kunstkammerinventar Kaiser Rudolfs II, 1607–1611’, in: Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, 72, 1976, pp. 11-191.Die Bronzen der Fürstlichen Sammlung Liechtenstein, exh. cat. (Frankfurt, Museum alter Plastik in der Schirn Kunsthalle, 26 November 1986–15 February 1987), Frankfurt, 1986.Paola Barocchi and Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà, Collezionismo mediceo: Cosimo I, Francesco I e il Cardinale Ferdinando. Documenti 1540-1587, Modena, 1993. S. Sturman, ‘A Group of Giambologna Female Nudes: Analysis and Manufacture’, in: Studies in the History of Art, 62, 2001, pp. 121-141.D. Zikos,’Le belle forme della Maniera. La prassi e l’ideale nella scultura del Giambologna’, in: Giambologna: gli dei, gli eroi, exh. cat. (Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, 2 March – 15 June 2006), B. Paolozzi Strozzi and D. Zikos eds., Florence, 2006, pp. 21-43.D. Zikos, ‘Die Dresdner Giambolognas. Apologie ihrer Eigenhändigkeit’, in: Giambologna in Dresden. Die Geschenke der Medici, exh. cat., (Dresden, Grünes Gewölbe, 2006), ed. by D. Syndram, M. Woelk and M. Minning, Munich and elsewhere, 2006, pp. 89-94.D. Zikos, ‘Giovanni Bologna and Antonio Susini: An old problem in the light of new research’ in: Carvings, Casts and Collectors: The Art of Renaissance Sculpture, ed. by P. Motture, E. Jones and D. Zikos eds., London, 2013, pp. 194-209.P. Wengraf, Renaissance & Baroque Bronzes from the Hill collection, exh. cat. (New York, The Frick Collection, 28 January-15 June 2014), London, 2014.
Provenance:
Almost certainly purchased in the years 1919-1928 by a private European collector, probably in Germany. Sold by the above 'A Continental Lady of Title', Christie’s, London, 5 December 1989, lot 100 (£2,750,000).Acquired by the present owner in the above sale.