Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
Old Master Sculpture & Works of Art
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).