Master Sculpture & Works of Art Part II
Master Sculpture & Works of Art Part II
Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
Italian, Florence, 17th century
Christ at the column
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January 28, 07:16 PM GMT
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation
Italian, Florence, 17th century
Christ at the column
bronze, on turned ebonized wood socle
height 6¾ in.; 14.1cm.
His sale, Sotheby's New York, 10 January 1995, lot 218.
As Avery notes, the present model was attributed to Giambologna on the basis of the strong modeling of the body and the hands of the figure but is more likely to have been cast by a younger follower. There are at least two other identical versions, both of which were attributed to Antonio Susini, the first was from the Beit Collection, sold in Christie's, 7 December 2006, lot 197 and another formerly in the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection and exhibited at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. This model has also been variously ascribed to a French sculptor, perhaps associated with Prieur, due to the attention to detail, facture and color of the casts.
RELATED LITERATURE
C. Avery and A. Radcliffe, Giambologna. Sculptor to the Medici, exhibition catalogue, London, Edinburgh, 1978, cat. no. 96.