Live Auction 3709Old Master Paintings & Sculpture Part II
A TERRACOTTA BOZZETTO OF TRITON AND SEAHORSE
Lot 264 PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART ACQUISITION FUND OF THE SEATTLE ART MUSEUM

A TERRACOTTA BOZZETTO OF TRITON AND SEAHORSE

ITALIAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Closed29 January 2015

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A TERRACOTTA BOZZETTO OF TRITON AND SEAHORSE
ITALIAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Depicting a triton catching a seahorse
14 ½ in. (37 cm.) high, 9 ¾ (25 cm.) wide, 10 5/8 in. (27.8 cm.) deep

Oscar Bondy, Vienna, by 1938.
Confiscated by the Nazi authorities April 1939.
Stored at the Zentraldepot Vienna for the “Führermuseum Linz” (Inv.no. 945), by 1939; transferred to Stift Kremsmünster (Inv.no. Kr/46/3078) , by 1946.
Restituted to Elisabeth Bondy, 17 November 1948.
With Blumka Gallery, New York.
Seattle Art Museum, purchased from the above, 4 May 1950.

Specialist note

A terracotta of a Naiad, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (acc. no. 56.144) and also from the Oscar Bondy collection, was originally certainly constituting a pair with the present.