Property from an Important Private Collection
Workshop of Nicolò Roccatagliata
Pair of candlebearing Putti
Auction Closed
July 2, 03:06 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Workshop of Nicolò Roccatagliata
Genoa circa 1560 - 1629 Venice
Pair of candlebearing Putti
bronze, on later bronze plinths and stepped yellow marble and black marble bases
bronzes: 36cm., 14¼in. and 35cm., 13¾in.
bases: 4.5cm., 1¾in. each
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 26 March 1970, lot 193;
Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York;
Its sale, Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2012, lot 294;
Where acquired.
M. H. Schwartz (ed.), European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York, 2008, no. 56, pp. 116-117
The animated curls, plump cheeks, and theatrical poses of this lively pair of putti are the unmistakable products of the Venetian workshop of Nicolò Roccatagliata. A related pair of music-playing putti are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (see M. Leithe-Jasper, Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1986, pp. 185-187, nos. 47-48).