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A PLASTER FIGURE OF JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES
Lot 217

A PLASTER FIGURE OF JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES

AFTER DONATELLO, CIRCA 1900

Closed9 October 2012

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GBP 4,375

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A PLASTER FIGURE OF JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES
AFTER DONATELLO, CIRCA 1900
In sections, on a later mahogany base
The figure: 95 in. (242 cm.) high
The plinth: 6 in. (15 cm.) high

Almost certainly The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Specialist note

After Donatello's bronze of circa 1460, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Cosimo de'Medici; it depicts Judith beheading the Assyrian general Holofernes.

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