Live Auction 2322Old Masters & 19th Century Art Including Select Works From the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries
A POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A KNEELING WOMAN
Lot 266

A POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A KNEELING WOMAN

ITALIAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

Closed9 June 2010

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A POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A KNEELING WOMAN
ITALIAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
On an integral rectangular plinth
15¼ in. (38.7 cm.) high

Estate of Edwin L. Weisl, Jr.; Christie's, New York, 28 September 2006, lot 302.

Specialist note

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Gentilini, I Della Robbia: La scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento, Florence, 1992, II, p. 375.

This figure relates, albeit in a more simplified and reduced form, to the terracotta statue of the kneeling Virgin by Marco della Robbia (1468-after 1532) in the Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence, dated by Gentilini (op. cit.) to circa 1505. The two sculptures share similar poses, physiognomies and dispositions of their drapery.