Lot 7
  • 7

AFTER MODELS BY MICHEL ANGUIER (1614-1686) AND AFTER THE ANTIQUE, FRENCH, EARLY 18TH CENTURYNEPTUNE AND SILENUS WITH THE CHILD DIONYSOS, |

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • pair of bronzes, light brown patina ; on later wooden and gilt bronze socles
  • Wood
  • H. 37 cm ; 14 1/2 in. overall

Provenance

Sotheby's Paris, 4 November 2015, lot 297 (€13,750 )

Catalogue Note

RELATED LITERATURE
F. Haskell, N. Penny, Pour l'amour de l'Antique. La statuaire gréco-romaine et le goût européen 1500-1900, Londres, 1981, pp. 335-37; G. Bresc-Bautier, G. Scherf, Bronzes français de la Renaissance au Siècle des lumières, Paris, 2008, pp. 208-09.