A PLASTER MODEL OF A HORSES HEAD FROM THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF ERASMO DA NARNI, KNOWN AS GATTAMELATA
Lot 148

A PLASTER MODEL OF A HORSES HEAD FROM THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF ERASMO DA NARNI, KNOWN AS GATTAMELATA

AFTER DONATELLO, MODERN

Closed9 October 2012

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GBP 5,250

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A PLASTER MODEL OF A HORSES HEAD FROM THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF ERASMO DA NARNI, KNOWN AS GATTAMELATA
AFTER DONATELLO, MODERN
39½ in. (83 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Donatello's bronze original in the Piazza del Santo, Padua, was the first Renaissance equestrian statue, circa 1445, to commemorate the condottiero Erasmo da Narni.
The present example was cast from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York's original cast now in an institutional collection.

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