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Francesco Fanelli

Florence 1590 – 1653 London

Venus and Adonis. Circa 1640

Bronze cast. 15,1 cm (6 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Francesco Fanelli. Venus and Adonis. Circa 1640.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 10,000

USD 9,000

 

- 11,200

Sold for:

10,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Orangerie Selected Objects, Thursday, 26.11.2015

Information

Bronze cast. 15,1 cm (6 in.). Old inventory number: 11275 or II 275. Even, dark brown patina.

Related literature: D. Howarth: Charles I, Sculpture and Sculptors; in: A. MacGregor (ed.): The Late King’s Goods, London and Oxford 1989, no. 3, p. 100, ill. 51 / Nicholas Penny: Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. III, Oxford, 1992, p. 62 / Majorie Trusted (ed.): The Making of Sculpture. The Materials and Techniques of European Sculpture, London 2007, p. 58, ill. 93

Comparable object: Victoria & Albert Museum, London, inv. no. A.96-1956 (final version), A.118-1910 and A.58-1956 (Bozetto casts).

1915 art dealership A. P. Drey, Munich / 1915–1958 collection Albert E. Brinckmann (1881–1958), Cologne / private collection, Italy

Jahrbuch des kk. Instituts des deutsch-österreichischen Staatsdenkmalamtes vol. XII (1918), p. 44ff. / Albert E. Brickmann: Süddeutsche Bronzebildhauer des Frühbarock, Munich 1923, ill. 90 (as a bronze cast of the wax model by Adriaen de Vries)