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Pietro Tacca - A patinated bronze figure of a female satyr

Auction 1097 - overview Cologne
18.11.2017, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
Estimate: 4.000 € - 5.000 €
Result: 4.960 € (incl. premium)
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Pietro Tacca

A patinated bronze figure of a female satyr

A depiction of a nude satyr with vine leaves draped around her waist, seated on a moulded plinth. The bronze caster and sculptor Pietro Tacca arrived in Florence in 1592 where he first worked in the studio of Giovanni Bologna and later took over the running of his house and foundry following the master's death in 1608. Tacca was named court sculptor to the grand duke in 1609.
Mounted on a wooden plinth. Height 16 cm (without plinth).

Provenance

Julius Böhler art dealers, Munich. - Private collection, South Germany. - Lempertz Auction 995, Cologne, 12.5.2012, lot 1387. - Collection of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Salber, Cologne.

Literature

A corresponding figure illus. in: Leo Planiscig: Piccoli bronzi italiani del Rinascimento, Milan 1930, pl. CCXXIV, illus. 380.