Venus and Cupid riding a dolphin bronze,... - Lot 51 - Marie-Saint Germain

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Venus and Cupid riding a dolphin bronze,... - Lot 51 - Marie-Saint Germain
Venus and Cupid riding a dolphin bronze, brown patina Northern Italy, probably Venice, second half of the 16th century Height: 26.8 cm (wear to the patina, two holes on the right side of the head, two fixing holes on the base) This representation of the goddess derives from the Venus Pudique, or Venus Medici, whose model by Praxiteles is known by the Roman copy in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The gesture of Venus, pressing her right breast with her left hand, is a free interpretation of the model model; it is comparable to that of the Venus Caritas by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (circa 1460-1528), known as the Antico, of which a copy in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (inv. 54.1027). A bronze of the same model as ours, whose casting was once considered is now given to a Venetian workshop of the first half of the sixteenth century, is in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (inv. Yet another example, the cast iron attributed to a Paduan workshop around 1500, was sold (note small correction to the catalog) by Christie's London on April 11, 1990, lot 135. It had been sold by Christie's New York on November 20, 1982, lot 288, on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.was sold by Sotheby's New York, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on April 11, 1990, lot 135. Bibliographic reference: Natur und Antike in der Renaissance, cat. exp. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, 1986, p. 422, no. 117.
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