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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2016 | Christie's | London | European Sculpture & Works of Art | 60 | $****** - ****** | A BRONZE RECLINING FIGURE OF THE HERMAPHRODITE |
sculpture
146.1 x 68 x 38.1 cm (57.5 x 26.75 x 15 in)
BRONZE
Purchased by a private collector (1887-1961) in the late 1920s, and thence by descent to the present owners.
'Kunstpalast' museum, Bad Ems, Germany, 1953-61 (see comparative image).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi - Le Sculture, I, Rome, 1958, no. 53, pp. 82-83.
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, p. 235.
J. Montague, Roman Baroque Sculpture - The Industry of Art, New Haven and London, 1989, p. 161.
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Mythologica et Erotica - Arte e Cultura dall' antichità al XVIII secolo, 2 Oct. 2005 - 15 Mar. 2006, O. Casazza and R. Gennaioli eds., no. 142.
J. Bassett, 'Thermoluminescence dating for European Sculpture', in Objects Specialty Group Postprints, Volume Fourteen (2007) from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, pp. 32-46.
Depicted lying on a tiger skin and a rockwork base; one toe of the proper right foot lacking; the end of the base also lacking, apparently as a result of difficulties with the casting