LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Bronze

Size Notes:

14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, overall

Description:

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Literature:

J. von Schlosser, Werke der Kleinplastik in der Skulpturensammlung des A. H. Kaiserhauses. I. Bildwerke in Bronze, Stein und Ton, Vienna, 1910, p. 10C. Avery, A. Radcliffe and M. Leithe-Jasper eds., Giambologna. Sculptor to the Medici, London, 1978, no. 1, p. 62C. Avery, Giambologna: The Complete Sculpture, Oxford, 1987, pp. 97-107A. Radcliffe, Giambologna’s Cesarini Venus, exh. cat., Washington, 1993A. Radcliffe ‘Giambologna’s “Venus” For Giangiorgio Cesarini: A Recantation’, in La Scultura: Studi in Onore Di Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki, A. González-Palacios, Vol. II, 1996, pp. 60-72S. Sturman, ‘A Group of Giambologna Female Nudes: Analysis and Manufacture’, in Small Bronzes in the Renaissance, Washington, 1998, ed. D. Pincus, pp. 120-141M. Leithe-Jasper and P. Wengraf, European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection, exh. cat. New York, 2004, no. 12, pp. 146-157W. Seipel ed., Giambologna: Triumph des Körpers exh. cat., Vienna, 2006

Provenance:

Ferdinand Adda Collection.Paris, Palais Galliera, Collection D’un Grand Amateur (anonymous sale of Ferdinand Adda), 29 Nov. -3 Dec., 1965, lot 397.Acquired by Djanhanguir Riahi in the above sale, and by descent.