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Jean de Boulogne detto Giambologna (Douai, 1529 - Firenze, 1608)After
Venus, 17th century
Patinated bronze with greenish traces; 16.5x5x5 cm, without base 12.5 x6 x 5 cm
This is the same subject, but with the addition of a child, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, attributed to the hand of Antonio Susini. Another in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, considered to be of the school.
Given the rarity of this casting, one can venture that it was made in Florence in an environment close to Giambologna's models.
Bibl. Charles Avery-Anthony Radcliffe, Giambologna Sculptor to the Medici - Exhibition catalogue, (Edinburgh, London and Vienna), 1978-79, pp. 66-67.
The model of this very rare Venus is thought to have been made in the workshop of Giambologna (Avery-Radcliffe).
There is a version very similar to ours, located in the Museum of Fine Arts, Dijon, with the only difference that that one rests on a flat circular base, while ours does not.
This is the same subject, but with the addition of a child, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, attributed to the hand of Antonio Susini. Another in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, considered to be of the school.
Our bronze statuette rests on a beautiful ancient cube-shaped base, veneered in red jasper, perhaps Sicilian.
Given the rarity of this casting, one can venture that it was made in Florence in an environment close to Giambologna's models.
Bibl. Charles Avery-Anthony Radcliffe, Giambologna Sculptor to the Medici - Exhibition catalogue, (Edinburgh, London and Vienna), 1978-79, pp. 66-67.
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Placquettes, Medals, Sculptures and Ceramics from the 14th to the 19th century
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