Attributed to Severo Calzetta da Ravenna (active circa 1496-1543), Italian, Padua, first half 16th century

Overall the condition of the bronze is good. There is some minor wear and dirt to the surface consistent with age including a largely rubbed black lacquer patina. Several areas are patched with lead including casting flaws around the proper left elbow, shoulder and the proper right knee and a square peg at the proper right elbow. The hand with the globe was cast separately and attached, a joint is visible at the wrist.
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Since Planiscig's identification in 1935 of the signature O.SEVERI.RA on a bronze sea-monster with the sculptor Severo da Ravenna, a coherent corpus of bronze statuettes has been attributed to this contemporary of Andrea Riccio. Fifty years later a bronze of a kneeling satyr with the initials SE was convincingly identified as a second autograph model by Severo (Christie's, 8 July 1981, lot 341). The present kneeling satyr compares closely with the initialled example, especially in the treatment of the teeth and tongue. The long central fringe of hair is, however, distinctly different.

The globe oil lamp is an unusual accoutrement for the kneeling Satyr model which normally holds a candle nozzle or shell.  The globe on the present bronze seems to be based on one held by the Atlas in the Frick Collection, New York which appears to be the finest of several known versions, including those held by another Atlas figure formerly in the Adolph von Beckerath collection and on a variant kneeling Satyr, illustrated Country Life, 6th April 1961, p.753. It is likely, however, that the globe on the present Satyr is a later addition, because it is pinned rather than screwed onto the right hand.

RELATED LITERATURE
D. Smith, 'I bronzi di Severo da Ravenna: un approccio tecnologico per la cronologia,' in M. Ceriana and V. Avery, L'Industria artistica del bronzo del rinascimento a Venezia e nell'Italia settentrionale,Venice, 2008, p. 49-80, figs.19, 20, 38-41, 46-47; J. Pope-Hennessy, The Frick Collection, vol.3, Princeton, 1968, pp. 106-111; E. van Binnebeke, Bronssculptuur. Beeldhouwkunst 1500-1800 in de collectie van het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994, pp. 52-3, no. 5; V. Krahn, Bronzetti Veneziani. Die Venezianischen Kleinbronzen der Renaissance aus dem Bode-Museum Berlin, ex. cat. Cologne, 2003, pp.72-75, no.15