Old Master Sculpture & Early Jewels
Old Master Sculpture & Early Jewels
Italian, Rome, circa 1800 | After the Antique | Bull
Lot Closed
December 7, 04:21 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Italian, Rome, circa 1800
After the Antique
Bull
bronze, on a bronze base
figure: 33 by 39.5cm., 13 by 15½in.
base: 5.5 by 36cm., 2⅛ by 14⅛in.
The prototype for the present bull is a mottled grey marble antiquity excavated circa 1775-1780 at Ostia and installed in the Sala degli animali in the Vatican shortly thereafter. Other casts in bronze are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, The Wallace Collection, London and the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt-am-Main.
RELATED LITERATURE
N. Penny, Catalogue of European sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum. 1540 to the present day. Volume I: Italian, Oxford, 1992, pp. 222-223, no. 162.