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A BRONZE GROUP OF A SATYR RIDING A GOAT
Lot 19 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 18 AND 19)

A BRONZE GROUP OF A SATYR RIDING A GOAT

NORTH ITALIAN, PROBABLY PADUAN, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY

Closed6 December 2012

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A BRONZE GROUP OF A SATYR RIDING A GOAT
NORTH ITALIAN, PROBABLY PADUAN, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY
Dark brown patina with warm chocolate brown high points; on a later rectangular marble plinth
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) long

A. C. J. Wall, Esq., of Wilton Park, Bicester, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

This bronze group of a satyr riding a goat is based on antique prototypes (an example of which was included in Montfaucon's l'Antiquité expliquée of 1719, illustrated in Frankfurt, op. cit., p. 480, fig. 213) and plays on the theme of arcadian abandon. It was a motif that was taken up again by bronze founders of the renaissance; variant examples exist in a number of collections including the Bode Museum in Berlin (ibid., no. 187).