Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II
Property of a Private Collector
Boar, called 'Il Porcelino'
Lot Closed
January 30, 08:11 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
After Pietro Tacca (Carrara 1577 - 1640 Florence)
Italian, Florence, 18th/early 19th century
Boar, called 'Il Porcelino'
bronze, on later black marble base
height of bronze 6 3/8 in.; 16.2cm.
Collection of Alexander von Frey, Berlin and Paris;
Julius Böhler, Lucerne;
Paul Drey Gallery, New York;
From whom acquired, 1971
Julius Böhler, Lucerne;
Paul Drey Gallery, New York;
From whom acquired, 1971
The present bronze is a small-scale copy of the life-size bronze figure of a boar, nicknamed 'Il Porcellino', cast by the Baroque master Pietro Tacca before 1634, now in the Museo Bardini, Florence. Tacca's bronze was, in turn, copied from an Italian copy of an antique Hellenistic marble which was discovered in Rome and transferred to Florence in 1568 as a gift to Cosimo de' Medici from Pope Pius IV.