Live Auction 2859The Decorative Arts Sale
AN EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GATTAMELATA
Lot 384

AN EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GATTAMELATA

AFTER DONATELLO, ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY

Closed23 March 2011

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EUR 5,000

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AN EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GATTAMELATA
AFTER DONATELLO, ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY
Mounted on a stepped marble plinth base, lacking staff
55.5 cm. high

Specialist note

The original of this equestrian group stands beside the Church of Sant' Antonio in Padua, the former capital of Veneto. It was commissioned by the Venetian people to honour Erasmo de Narni (b. 1370) who was Generalissimo from 1437 to 1438, and the statue was completed in 1447. De Narni was only later given the soubriquet of Gattamelata.