LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

4.53 in. (11.50 cm.) (height)

Exhibited:

San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, 3 March-11 September 1988, L. Camins, ed., pp. 14-16, no. 1.

Literature:

W. von Bode, Catalogue of J. Pierpont Morgan Collection; Bronzes of the Renaissance, 1910, II, no. 181, pl. XXX. L. Fairbairn, The North Italian Album Designs by a Renaissance Artisan, Sir John Soane Museum, London, 1998, p. 2, fig. 14. C. Avery, La Spezia. Scultura, Museo Civico Amedeo Lia della Spezia, 1998, pp. 27-28. M. Schwartz, ed., European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York. 2008, pp. 22-23, no. 1. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: P. Schubring, Donatello, Des Meister's Werke, Stüttgart and Leipzig, 1907. J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, no. 514, fig. 517. R.W. Lightbrown, Donatello & Michelozzo: An Artistic Partnership and its Patrons in the Early Renaissance, II, London, 1980. L. Bellosi, 'Donatello e il recupero della scultura in terracotta', in Donatello-Studien, Munich, 1989, pp. 130-145.

Provenance:

J.P. Morgan Collection, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, until deaccessioned Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 11 December 1979, lot 199.