Lot n° 151
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4000 - 6000
EUR
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Giovanni Battista FOGGINI (1652-1725) d'après
The Arrotino
Bronze with a shaded brown patina, cast probably by the workshop of Joseph Vinache (1653 -1717)
H. 27.6 cm, W. 31.5 cm, D. 16.5 cm
Louis XIV period.
Reduction of the statue delivered around 1695 for the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, a copy of the antique statue of Florence, perhaps after a cast of the copy executed in 1684 by Foggini. The model was made in clay by Girardon, who then repaired the wax made by Langlois, for the manufacture of the bronze by the Neapolitan foundryman Vinaccia, or Joseph Vinache, who at the same time made the Crouching Venus by Coysevox. 1695: placed in the green apartments of Marly. 1797: placed in the garden of the Tuileries, as a counterpart of the Crouching Venus. 1870: entered the Louvre on October 18. 1871: sent to Versailles, on September 26, to replace the marble of Foggini.
Copy of the Uffizi antique known in Rome in the 16th century, acquired in 1578 by Cardinal Medici for the Villa Medici and sent to Florence in 1677.
Our model is of the same quality of casting, chasing and size as the copy kept in the Wallace Collection.
A bronze of the same subject appears in the inventory of Louis XIV, 684, guiffrey II, p.33,N°14.
Joseph Vinache , founder and ordinary sculptor of the king, will make five bronze masks (...) for the Baths of Apollo in Versailles. (Receipts and expenses of the store (coppers), 170-1713, expenses, September and October 1704. Compte des batiments du roi, 1664-1715)
Robert Wenley, French Bronzes in the Wallace Collection, London 2002, pp. 42-45
Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900, Yale University Press, 1981, pp. 154-157
J. G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues - Sculpture, London, 1931, no. S188 and S189.
M. Knoedler and Co, The French Bronze 1500 to 1800, New York, 1968, no. 27A and B.
F. Souchal, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries - The Reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, 1977, no. 37, pp. 191-193.
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