FRENCH or ITALIAN school around 1800 after... - Lot 174 - Crait + Müller

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FRENCH or ITALIAN school around 1800 after... - Lot 174 - Crait + Müller
FRENCH or ITALIAN school around 1800 after a model of Jean de BOLOGNE called Giambologna (1529-1608) Crouching Venus Bronze with brown patina and translucent varnish. H. 22,5 cm RELATED WORKS: John of Bologna, Crouching Venus, c. 1560, terracotta with traces of gilding, Florence, Horne Museum, no. C.904; Kneeling Venus, drying herself, bronze, H. 25.5 cm, signed "I. B. F.", Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, n°inv. 62 B; Antonio Susini after a model of John of Bologna, Venus crouching, bronze with light brown patina, H. 24.9 cm, N°35 engraved under the left shoulder, Bath, Holburne of Menstrie Museum, n° inv. C.904 Antonio Susini after a model of Jean de Bologne, Baigneuse accroupie, bronze, H. 24,9 cm, The Robert Smith Collection ; XIXth century after a model of Jean de Bologne, Vénus accroupie, bronze with brown patina, H.23,5 cm, Paris, musée du Louvre, n°inv.OA9137 RELATED LITERATURE: Béatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, Dimitrios Zikos, Giambologna gli dei, gli eroi, Firenze, Giunti, 2006, model listed under no. 18, pp. 199-200; Geneviève Bres-Bautier, Sophie Baratte, Les Bronzes de la Couronne, cat. Exp. Paris, Musée du Louvre, April 12-July 12, 1999, model listed under no. 35, p. 81; Anthony Radcliffe, Nicholas Penny, Art of the Renaissance 1500-1600, The Robert Smith Collection, Philip Wilson Publishe, 2004, pp. 188-191 and cat.18 pp.199-200; Manfred Leithe-Jasper, "Venere dopo il bagno, prima e dopo la Venere Cesarini," pp.189- Allen, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022 ( online) While a terracotta dated to the 1560s demonstrates Giambologna's early interest in the theme of the crouching, draped bather (now in the Horne Museum, Florence), an early bronze version is mentioned in 1584 in the inventory of Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici's Roman collections. Although it has not been formally proven that it was the latter, a version engraved with the artist's initials on a bracelet encircling Venus' arm is currently kept in the Bargello Museum in Florence, where it serves as a reference for all the other later versions listed. The many talented collaborators, including Susini, helped to spread the iconic image of the most famous Mannerist sculptor of the late 16th century through the production of small art bronzes. Inspired by the Hellenistic marble of the Crouching Venus, a Roman model based on a Greek original of the second century B.C., attributed to Doidalsas of Bithynia, now preserved in the Uffizi Museum, the model of Giambologna's Venus has been very famous over the centuries and has been the subject of many successive editions, especially to satisfy the European art lovers staying in Italy during their Grand Tour.
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