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Barbedienne After the Antique Circa 1880 bust of Zeus. The bronze bust is signed on the reverse Barbedienne Fondeur with the Collas reduction seal. The Belgian marble base has an affixed bronze dedicated plaque to Leonard Bucheron 1880
Dimensions:Total height 10 inches, Height of bronze alone 8&1/2 inches |
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"Mercury" After Giambologna (Italian,1529 -1608) late 19th century bronze ( possibly Italian cast), unsigned
Dimensions: bronze 75&1/4inches high,with marble base 9&1/2 inches high, total height 84&3/4 inches
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Augustin Edme Moreau-Vauthier / (attributed ) / (French 1831-1893)
"Hermes" A superbly modeled and cast unsigned bronze sculpture of the
son of Zeus circa 1880 on an octagonal marble base
Dimensions: Total height 13&1/4 inches
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" The Colosus of the Nile", attributed to the workshop of Francesco Righetti (the elder) (Italian, 1738- 1819)
Dimensions: Bronze sculpture height 13&1/2 inches by 22& 1/2 inches in length by 11 inches in width
Total height (including base) 17 inches by 24&1/4 inches in length by 14&1/4 inches in width. |
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“The Colossus of the Nile" attributed to the workshop of Francesco Righetti (the elder) (Italian, 1738- 1819) An after the antique tour de force bronze sculpture on an elaborate purple marble and slate base. The bronze sculpture is meticulously cast and detailed. There are sixteen individual children (all with distinctly different facial expressions) that adorn the Colossus of the Nile. Traces of gilding are still evident on the bronze base and the Colossus figure. Gilding is typical of Francesco Righetti's workshop examples.The execution of this bronze required a very high degree of hand finishing. It should be noted that the marble and slate base created specifically for this bronze is also very similar to the marble bases found on other works from Francesco Righetti's workshop. Francesco Righetti (apart from being well known for his foundry in Rome) was also a very accomplished sculptor who had been taught by the leading silversmith in Rome, Luigi Valadier (Italian, 1726-1785). Righetti quickly became Valadier's successor in producing faithful replicas of celebrated statues, both ancient and modern. Righetti sometimes collaborated with other artists in the sculpting of these models. A 1785 entry in the diary of Vincenzo Pacetti mentions that, Camillo ( his brother) was making "alcune copie per Righetti il Metallaro"( several copies for Righetti in metal). Camillo Pacetti (Rome, 2 May 1758 - Milan, 6 July 1826) copied antiquities in Righetti's workshop in 1785. Righetti was not the only artist to offer miniature versions - his rivals Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli produced similar versions in their slightly less expensive line of statuettes. During the 1785 Righetti acquired the Zoffoli bronze foundry ( thus removing his main competitor of cast bronze sculpture). Part of James Harper's, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century (2000), pp. 276-277 " writes that In 1794 Righetti published a catalogue-style price list of the miniature statues available from his workshop, a document that attests both to the scope of his production and to his promotional talent. The offerings included seventy-eight single figures, twenty-five figure groups, forty-six busts, and various vases, trophies, and animal sculptures. Although most of the advertised bronzes were after noted antiquities, the catalogue also lists copies of modern works, including four statuettes after Bernini and five after Giambologna. In the same document the sculptor expressed his willingness to do custom work, offering to copy statues of the buyer's choice either in miniature or in full scale. Significantly, the 1794 price list is written in French, suggesting that Righetti conceived the miniatures for a foreign clientele.
The present bronze is after the reconstructed marble by Gaspare Sibilla ( Italian 1723-1782) for Pope Clement XIV; using drawings as references and his own imagination. This marble sculpture is currently the centerpiece of the Braccio Nouvo (new wing of the Vatican) – It is considered a Roman sculpture from the 1st century A.D. but is likely after an Hellenistic sculpture. Gaspare Sibilla was the sculptor to the Vatican -- who also created sculpture for church monuments such as the Monument to Benedict XIV in St. Peter's Cathedral and the monument to Cardinal Niccolò Antonelli in San Giovanni in Laterano. Sibilla was considered the chief restorer of the collection of antiquities in the Vatican. This marble sculpture was discovered in the sixteenth century in Rome under the church of "Santa Maria Sopra Minerva". The first recorded description of the sculpture was in 1523 and it was originally part of a fountain in the Belvedere statue court facing the river Tiber.
An example similar in size to the present bronze sculpture was created in ceramic biscuit by Giovanni Volpato (Italian, 1735 Bassano del Grappa - 1803, Rome). This ceramic sculpture is part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (A link to their web page is included below.) It should be noted that the floral and wave like details on the present bronze sculpture are faithful to the original Vatican marble sculpture and differ from the Metropolitan Museum /Volpato example mentioned previously. Volpato started his artistic life as an engraver who was initially taught by his mother. He also studied with the Remondini family (pre-eminent printers from the 17th to the 19th centuries). In his early twenties Volpato lived in Venice and worked under Francesco Bartolozzi. He moved to Rome in 1771 and found great success there creating engravings from Raphael’s paintings. Volpato’s oeuvre of engravings can be divided into three categories: architectural, topographical and humorous scenes from daily life. Volpato was both an archaeologist and a dealer in antiquities.In 1785 he opened a factory creating white glazed earthenware sculptures and introducing the art of hard paste biscuit china to the city of Rome. He employed over 20 modelers on the Via Pudenziana creating sculptures for the Grand Tour visitors. The Volpato factory created a less expensive alternative to the bronze sculptures by the Francesco Righetti (1738- 1819) and Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli (1738-1795 & (1745-1805) foundries in Rome. After Volpato's death in 1803 the ceramic factory was run by wife (who had remarried the chief modeler) and his son Guiseppe. The factory ceased production in 1831. The Wallace collection has a far less elaborate bronze of the Nile of similar dimension but without the 16 children (Illustrated on plate 45 of the 1931 catalogue) .This bronze sculpture was exhibited in Bethnal Green London from 1874-1875 and is possibly exhibition number 1386.
References :
The ancient Romans by Michael J. Vickers, University of Oxford Press 1992.
Taste and the antique: the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900 By Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny 1998
Draper, James David. "The River Nile, a Giovanni Volpato Masterwork." Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 37 (2002).
James Harper, from Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century (2000), cat. 147, p. 277.
Hugh Honour,Neo-classicism 1968 Penguin.
Hiesinger, Ulrich W. and Ann Percy. A Scholar Collects: Selections from the Anthony Morris Clark Bequest. Philadelphia: Phildelphia Museum of Art, 1980, p.126.
The Wallace Collection Catalogues .Sculpture By J.G. Mann 1931.
Link to Volpato version : http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.456 |
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European late 18 th early 19 th century finely chased and gilded bronze sculpture on a later marble base. The bronze represents Telephus, the son of Hercules who was suckled by a deer .This sculpture is after the Herculaneum wall painting, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale Inv. 9008.
Dimensions Total height 5 &1/2 inches by 6 inches in length |
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After Giambologna (Italian 1529 -1608) "Fortuna", 19th century bronze (possibly Italian cast), unsigned, holding a cornucopia full of coins
Dimensions: Total height 35&1/2 inches
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"Mercury" After Giambologna (Italian,1529 -1608). A major sized table model and a late 19th century French bronze on Belgian marble base .Foundry seal for Barbedienne and Collas reduction. Circa 1880 Paris cast.
Dimensions: Total height 40 inches. |
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19th Century sculpture after the antique by Myron of Eleutherae (Greek 440-480 BC.The sculpture is known as "The Discobolus of Myron". Myron was born in Eleutherae, a small town on the border between Attica and Bocotia, and lived most of his life in Athens. The 1st-century writer Pliny cites Myron as the first to achieve life like representation in art, but it would be more accurate to say that he was the first Greek sculptor to combine a mastery of movement with a gift for harmonious composition. Circa 1890 large and impressive Italian bronze cast on a monumental circular rouge marble base. Superb hand chasing and finishing to the sculpture, quite possibly cast by either Nelli or Chiaruzzi.
Dimensions: Total height 28 &1//2 inches. |
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Unsigned German bronze garden sculpture of "Merkur" (Mercury) Circa 1930
Dimensions :Height 48 inches |
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German Circa 1900 Grand Tour bronze of Pan:Unsigned but with Bellair Foundry Seal (Berlin).
Dimensions: Height 20 &1/2 inches by 7 &1/2 inches in width, by 5 inches in depth |
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Bronze late 19th century Austrian Grand Tour Satyr on marble base.
Dimensions: Height of bronze 11 inches |
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19th Century After Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) Night and Day Bronze sculptures, dark green patina, on wood bases. Both inscribed: F. Barbedienne Fondeur and with the foundry reduction seals for Achille Collas. The life-size marbles are at the Tomb of Giuliano de Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.
Dimensions: 20 &1/2 inches in length and 14 inches in height
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19th Century After Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) Night and Day Bronze sculptures, dark green patina, on wood bases. Both inscribed: F. Barbedienne Fondeur and with the foundry reduction seals for Achille Collas. The life-size marbles are at the Tomb of Giuliano de Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.
Dimensions: 20 &1/2 inches in length and 14 inches in height
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19th Century After Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) Lorenzo di Medici (after the marble model). Founders mark of Ferdinand. Barbedienne and the seal `Reduction Mecanique - A.Collas - Brevete. Circa 1890. Dark brown patina.
Dimensions: Height 14 inches
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After Johann Heinrich von Dannecker ( German 1758-1841) A superb and monumental Italian circa 1890 hand carved white marble group of Ariadne and the panther. Ariadne naked with a vine wreath in her hair, looking ahead and lying across the back of a panther, her elbow resting on its head and holding drapery in her hand, on a stepped rectangular marble base
Dimensions: Total height 22 inches by length 25 inches by width 10&1/2 inches
Ref:
H.W.Janson,/ Nineteenth Century Sculpture,/ Thames and Hudson, 1985, pp. 62-3.
The present sculpture is after the celebrated work by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (d.1841) in the State Sculpture Gallery, Frankfurt. Ariadne, daughter of the king of King Minos of Crete, having helped Theseus, whom she loved, to escape from the Labyrinth was in return abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. Bacchus rescued her, consoled her and they soon were married. The vine wreaths in Ariadne's hair allude to her union with Bacchus the God of wine, as does the panther which is often depicted drawing Bacchus's Triumphal chariot. Ariadne's Heavenward gaze may also relate to the constellation that Bacchus created when he threw her jeweled crown to the Heavens. |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian 1475- 1564)" Moses", version circa 19th century after the original marble in San Pietro Rome, Bellaire(German) Foundry stamp, bronze
Dimensions: 16&1/4in high
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Souvenir of the Grand Tour circa 1910 signed plaster after Donatello's Niccolo di Uzzano
Dimensions: Height 13 inches. |
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Unknown (Italian Circa 1900)"Bust of Dante Alighieri"A fine Italian cast believed originally to be a mold taken from life 1265-1321 Dimensions: height 13 inches by 16 inches in length |
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Austrian 19th Century School, after Francesco Fanelli (1605-1661) Circa 1880 unsigned bronze rearing stallion on marble base
Dimensions: Total height 15 inches by 12&1/2 inches in length
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"Youth playing with marbles", Barbedienne Foundry, Collas Reduction Mechanique seal, bronze
Dimensions:5&1/2in high
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