LOT DETAILS

Materials:

parcel-gilt bronze

Measurements:

4.72 in. (12.00 cm.) (height)

Exhibited:

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

Literature:

W. von Bode, Catalogue of J. Pierpont Morgan Collection: Bronzes of the Renaissance , 1910, vol. 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 , Stuttgart/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 , vol. II., London, 1980. L. Bellosi, 'Donatello e il recupero della scultura in terracotta', in Donatello-Studien , pp. 130-145, Munich, 1989

Provenance:

J.P. Morgan Collection, New York Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, until de-accessioned. Christie's, London, 11 December 1979, lot 199