Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
A RECTANGULAR BRONZE RELIEF OF BACCHANALIAN INFANTS PLAYING WITH A GOAT
Lot 443

A RECTANGULAR BRONZE RELIEF OF BACCHANALIAN INFANTS PLAYING WITH A GOAT

AFTER FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY (1594-1643), PROBABLY ITALIAN, 18TH CENTURY

Closed19 September 2013

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A RECTANGULAR BRONZE RELIEF OF BACCHANALIAN INFANTS PLAYING WITH A GOAT
AFTER FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY (1594-1643), PROBABLY ITALIAN, 18TH CENTURY
In a moulded giltwood frame
14¼ x 8¼ in. (36.4 x 21 cm.); 21¾ x 15¼ in. (55.3 x 39.2 cm.) overall

Probably Thornton's, York, circa 1954 as 'After J M Clodion'.

Specialist note

Duquesnoy created multiple versions of this scene, which became very popular in French and Flemish painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was reproduced in the works of Gerrit Dou and Jean-Baptist-Simeon Chardin (Boudon-Machuel, op. cit, figs. 198-201). There is a version in bronze in the Skulpturensammlung in Dresden and in marble in the Palazzo Doria Pamphili in Rome (ibid, figs. 33 and 34).