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Lot 448 Dα

The bird catcher

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
17.05.2023, 14:00 - Furniture Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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The bird catcher

Bronze model of a crouching figure with a lantern, holding a stick in his raised right hand. The tip of the stick missing, the base of the lantern lost (remnants of earlier soldering), a casting crack to the frontmost leg, scratches, chips to the marble. H 20.6, H with grey marble base 22 cm.
Italy, 19th C., after Giovanni da Bologna.

The subject of the bird catcher was modelled both by Giambologna (1529 - 1608) and by his pupil Pietro Tacca (1577 - 1640). A similar figure with upraised lantern is housed in the Victoria & Albert Museum London, acc. no. A.129-1956.

Literature

For the early bronzes see Avery/Radcliffe (ed.), Giambologna Sculptor to the Medici, London 1978, cat. no. 134.
S.a. cat. ex aere solido Bronzen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Berlin 1983, cat. no. 80.
S.a. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum 1540 to the Present Day, Oxford 1992, vol. II, p. 177 f., p. 383 f.