LOT DETAILS

Materials:

terracotta

Measurements:

28.94 in. (73.50 cm.) (height) by 32.28 in. (82.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, P & D Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., Exhibition of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian sculpture, 1965, no. 13;. Washington, New York and Cambridge, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fingerprints of the artist: European terra-cotta sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections, 1979-1982, no. 35;. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Terracottas from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1981, no. 26

Literature:

Exhibition of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian sculpture, exh. cat. P & D Colnaghi & Co Ltd, London, 1965, no. 13, pl. XI;. C. Avery and A. Lang, Fingerprints of the artist: European terra-cotta sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Washington D.C., 1981, no. 35;. J. D. Draper, European Terracottas from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1981, no. 26. S. Bellesi, Nuove acquisizioni alla scultura fiorentina dalla fine del cinquecento al settecento, in Antichità viva, XXXI, 5/6, 1992, pp. 45, 47, 50 (n. 55) .

Provenance:

The noble Degli Alessandri family of Florence, their villa, Villa Alessandri, Petroio, near Empoli;. Conte Giovanni degli Alessandri, Empoli;. P & D Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., 1965;. with Heim Gallery, London (INV.NO.084/76);. Dr Arthur Mitchell Sackler (1913-1987), New York;. his sale, Sotheby's New York, Important European Terracotta and Bronze Sculpture from the Arthur M. Sackler collections including Drawings related to Sculpture, 29 January 2010, lot 472