A GILT-BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING LION
NORTH ITALIAN OR SOUTH GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY
Depicted in mid-stride and snarling, on a later marble base
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high, 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) wide
A GILT-BRONZE MODEL OF A PACING LION
NORTH ITALIAN OR SOUTH GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY
Depicted in mid-stride and snarling, on a later marble base
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high, 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) wide
Julius Goldschmidt, London, and sold Sotheby's, London, 10, April 1964, lot 42 (as Pietro Tacca). Baron Paul Hatvany-Deutsch (1899-1977), Cadogan Place, London and sold Christie's, London, 25 June 1980, lot 35 (as Florentine).
J. R. Bliss, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Ph.D Dissertation (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1977), pp. 40-41, note 37. A. P. Rosenberg, Bronzes of the Italian Renaissance; Twenty-Two Unpublished Statuettes, New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., 1981, p. 12, no. 3, fig. 12-13. A. P. Rosenberg, Renaissance Bronzes and Later Sculpture, New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., 1984, p. 31, no. 10.
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