LOT DETAILS

Materials:

parcel-gilt rectangular bronze relief

Measurements:

6.50 in. (16.50 cm.) (height) by 5.12 in. (13.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

With red painted inventory numbers ATH276 and M660 to the reverse

Exhibited:

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1876-1974.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., no. 7, pp. 32-35.New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2003-2005.

Literature:

L. Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance, Vienna, 1921, pp. 209-255.L. Planiscig, Die Bronzeplastiken – Statuetten, Reliefs, Geraete und Plaketten, Vienna, 1924, fig. 146, pp. 80-81.A. Markham Schulz, ‘Pietro Lombardo’s Barbarigo Tomb in the Venetian Church of S. Maria della Carita’, in Art the Ape of Nature – Studies in Honor of J. H. Larson, New York, 1981, pp. 171-192.A. Luchs, Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice 1490-1530, Cambridge, 1995.V. Krahn, Bronzetti Veneziani – Die venezianschen Kleinbronzen der Renaissance aus dem Bode-Museum Berlin, 2003, nos. 3, 49-52, pp. 38-41, 182-191.M. Schwarz ed., European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 40, pp. 92-93.

Provenance:

With Allessandro Castellani (as Bust of the Savior).The Boston Athenaeum, 1876, and immediately placed on loan to the new Museum of Fine Art, Boston.Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 February 1977, lot 58.