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Simone Bianco (circa 1480/90 - after 1553) and workshop, Venice, mid-16th century

Bust of a Man, possibly Pierio Veleriano Bolzanio

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

bronze and giallo antico marble; on a serpentine marble socle

inscribed indistinctly in red paint to the reverse: 1263 (?), and with a label to the underside of the socle inscribed “PK 36”

35.5cm., 14in. overall

Private collection, Innsbruck, acquired from a Berlin art dealer circa 1950;

thence by descent, private collection, Switzerland;

Sotheby’s London, 6 July 2021, lot 6;

Where acquired.

C. Kryza-Gersch, dans A. Bacchi, L. Giacomelli (dir.), Rinascimento e passione per l’antico. Andrea Riccio e il suo tempo, cat. exp. Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trente, 2008, pp. 312-313, no. 35.