After Guillaume Coustou (1677-1746)
Terracotta... Lot 72
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After Guillaume Coustou (1677-1746)
Terracotta group representing the Allegory of the River Tiber
France, second half 18th century
Terracotta group representing the Allegory of the River Tiber
France, second half 18th century
Resting on a gilded wood base
Terracotta groep die de Allegorie van de rivier de Tiber voorstelt
Frankrijk, tweede helft 18e eeuw
Rustend op een vergulde houten sokkel
Terracotta group representing the Allegory of the River Tiber
France, second half 18th century
Resting on a gilded wooden base
25 x 45 x 22 cm (17 1/2 in wide, 8 1/2 in deep, 9 1/2 in high)
Base: 6 x 48,2 x 25,5 cm (18 1/2 in wide, 9 1/2 in deep, 2 in high)
Footnotes:
Provenance
Sale: Rops, Namur, July 11, 2022, lot 7952
Private collection, Belgium acquired from the above
This terracotta figure represents one of the most important rivers of the ancient world, the Tiber, personified by a reclining bearded man, leaning against a cornucopia filled with fruit and ears of corn and accompanied by a she-wolf.
This terracotta of the River God is a reduction of a famous monumental ancient marble found in 1512, and sculpted in Hadrian's time (117-138) as a counterpart to the Nile. These much-admired marbles were included in the Roman antiquities ceded to Napoleon in 1803, to be displayed in the Salle des Fleuves in the Musée Central des Arts in Paris
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, there was a real craze for bronze, marble and terracotta reductions based on Antiquities
Comparative literatures
F. Haskell and N. Penny, For the love of the antique, the Greco-Roman statuary and the European taste, Hachette, Paris, 1988.
F. Souchal, The French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. The reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, Cassirer ed. 1977.
J. Warren, Beauty and Power. Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino collection, Wallace Collection, London, Wallace Collection, 2010, pp. 166-172
Isabelle d'Amécourt
Expert - Member SFEP
isabelle@idamecourt.com
For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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