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AFTER ANDREA BRIOSCO, CALLED RICCIO (1470-1532), ITALIAN OR FRENCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY | ORPHEUS

Auction Closed

December 3, 02:41 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

AFTER ANDREA BRIOSCO, CALLED RICCIO (1470-1532)

ITALIAN OR FRENCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY

ORPHEUS 


bronze

25cm., 9⅞in.

After the celebrated bronze by Riccio in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. OA 9115), see D. Allen and P. Motture, Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze, exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York, 2009, pp. 222-227, no. 20. Given the original model's location in Paris from 1858, the present cast may have been made in the Spitzer workshop, like aftercasts of the Shouting Horseman (see ibid., p. 218).