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Materials:

warm brown patina with greenish-brown and reddish-brown highlights

Size Notes:

(95.1 cm.) high, overall

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, David Carritt Limited, Valadier - Three Generations of Roman Goldsmiths, 15 May - 12 June 1991. University of Edinburgh, Scotland, The Torrie Collection, on loan 2003-2004. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, on loan September 2005 - November 2008 (inv. AAL 18-2005).

Literature:

G. S. Salmann, 'An attempt at analysis', Connoisseur, Jan. 1969, p. 19-23. F. Robinson, 'Springfield's anatomical horse of bronze', Springfield, Museum of Fine Arts, Mass. Annual Bulletin, XXXVI, no. 1, Oct.-Nov., 1969. Isabelle de Wavrin, Sotheby's à Monaco - 10 ans - 1975-1985, Paris, 1986. Valadier - Three Generations of Roman Goldsmiths, London, 1991, no. 77, pp. 148-150. D. Macmillan, A Catalogue of the Torrie Collection, 2004, pp. 13-15. H. Vickers ed., Alexis - The Memoirs of the Baron de Redé, Paris, 2005, p. 165. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:. Carlo Ruini, Anatomia del'Cavallo, Bologna, 1598, I, pls. 243, 245, 247. Northumberland Accounts, Lord Percy, 14-21 June 1816, Feb. 1 1817. Northumberland Archive, Inventory of Northumberland House, (after the death of the 3rd Duke) 1847, p.2 (H. VIII. I. b). W. Suida, 'A bronze horse attributed to Leonardo', International Studio, XCIX, June 1931, p. 51. A. Lensi, La Donazione Loeser, Florence, 1934, pp. 34-37. E. Dhanens, Jean Boulogne, Giovanni Bologna Fiammingo, 1956, p. 279. H. Weihrauch, Europaische Bronzestatuetten, Brunswick, 1967, fig. 437. Edinburgh, London and Vienna, Royal Scottish Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and Kunsthistorisches Museum, Giambologna 1529-1608 - Sculptor to the Medici, 19 Aug. 1978 - 28 Jan. 1979, pp. 185-6, no. 169. C. Avery, Giambologna - The Complete Sculpture, Oxford, 1987, p. 257, no. 38.

Provenance:

Probably the Dukes of Northumberland, circa 1816. Collection of Boris Kochno and Christian Bérard by 1946. Collection of Baron Alexis de Redé (1922-2004) by 1949. Sotheby's Monaco, Meubles et Objets d'art provenant de l'Hôtel Lambert et du Château de Ferrières appartenant au Baron de Redé et au Baron Guy de Rothschild, 26 March 1975, lot 187. Private Collection (acquired at the above sale). By descent to the present owner.