Ceres and Bacchus in bronze with black patina,... - Lot 267 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Ceres and Bacchus in bronze with black patina,... - Lot 267 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Ceres and Bacchus in bronze with black patina, allegories of Summer and Autumn. Standing with one leg bent, head turned, one holding a bunch of wheat ears in both hands, the other pouring wine into a bowl. Northern Italy, Venice or Genoa, after a model by Niccolo Roccatagliata (active between 1593 and 1636), late 16th/early 17th century 17th century Heights: 25.7 cm marble pedestals. Consulted: A. Gibbon, Guide des bronzes de la Renaissance italienne, Paris, 1990, p 86. These pleasant subjects are typical of the art of small bronzes by the Venetian sculptor Niccolo Roccatagliata. One finds indeed his revolving vision of attitudes combined with a certain heaviness of the bodies. The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts holds similar models of these two statuettes with a slight variation in the shape of the cup held by Bacchus (inv. 5313 and 5315). There is also a slightly larger Ceres in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. A 100-1910) and a Bacchus in the Metropolitan Museum (inv. 27.36.6), which made up the upper parts of the chenets. A thermoluminescence test carried out on the core of Ceres by Qed Laboratory dated 10/05/2017 will be given to the purchaser.
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