Lot 1100 - A212 Decorative Arts - jeudi, 27. mars 2025, 13h30
HERCULES AS A BOY STRANGLING THE SERPENTS
Padua, 18th century. A model after a design by Francesco Fanelli (1577–1657) for a fountain.
Bronze, chiseled and with a brown patina. Hercules as a boy in a dynamic pose fighting two serpents of Hera. Chiseled bronze base decorated with flowers and grass.
H 24 cm.
Provenance:
- Swiss private collection, acquired at the above auction.
Literature:
Patina rubbed in places. Probably originally with a leaf in front of the genitals.
Based on a sketch for a fountain, Charles Avery and Anthony Radcliffe ascribe this composition to the Florentine architect Francesco Fanelli (see: Francesco Fanelli: Varie Architeture, 1642. Source: Getty Research Institute). Fanelli was active at the English court of King Charles I in London in the 1630s and 40s, where he probably intended this fountain design for the Italian-style gardens of Queen Henrietta Maria's new palace in Wimbledon.
The bronze figure of the boy Hercules strangling the serpentis known to exist in various qualities and sizes. Examples can be found in the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna (inv. no. 9038), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. no. M.10-1951) and the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. (Cf. Emil van Binnebeke: Bronze sculpture. Sculpture 1500-1800 in the collection of the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1994, pp. 132-33, No. 38).
Based on a sketch for a fountain, Charles Avery and Anthony Radcliffe ascribe this composition to the Florentine architect Francesco Fanelli (see: Francesco Fanelli: Varie Architeture, 1642. Source: Getty Research Institute). Fanelli was active at the English court of King Charles I in London in the 1630s and 40s, where he probably intended this fountain design for the Italian-style gardens of Queen Henrietta Maria's new palace in Wimbledon.
The bronze figure of the boy Hercules strangling the serpentis known to exist in various qualities and sizes. Examples can be found in the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna (inv. no. 9038), the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. no. M.10-1951) and the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. (Cf. Emil van Binnebeke: Bronze sculpture. Sculpture 1500-1800 in the collection of the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1994, pp. 132-33, No. 38).
CHF 4 000 / 7 000 | (€ 4 120 / 7 220)
Vendu pour CHF 4 000 (frais inclus)