ITALIAN, PROBABLY FLORENCE, LATE 16TH/ EARLY 17TH CENTURY | BUST OF A YOUNG MAN, POSSIBLY SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST

Another cast of the present model, as well as a version without the cherub element paired with a bust of Christ, were sold in these rooms as part of the collection of Luigi Koelliker on 3 December 2008 as lots 112 and 116. The Samuel H. Kress Collection catalogue (op. cit.) illustrates a cast in which the man is unclothed, with a shorter truncation, described as Florentine, 16th century.

RELATED LITERATURE

J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, no. 496, fig. 491