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Lot 317
Description:
A French Bronze Figure of "Neptune", 19th c., after Michel Anguier (French, 1612/14-1686), height 22 in.
- Notes: Note: One of the most celebrated ensembles of the mid-17th c. was a group of bronze statuettes (at this same size) commissioned in 1652 by Louis XIV¹s court jeweler, Montarsi, from Michel Anguier, lately returned to Paris from his term as pensionnaire of the French Academy in Rome. The best surviving casts of this "Neptune" are in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; it was originally paired with an "Amphitrite" (as "Jupiter" was with "Juno", "Pluto" with "Ceres", "Mars" with "Venus" and "Bacchus" with a "Nymph" after the Antique). Neptune is shown in his Virgilian role of calming the waves, with a trident (now missing) in his left hand and a sea-horse wreath at his feet. The very dynamic pose is a tribute to Michel Anguier¹s experience as an assistant to the great Gianlorenzo Bernini
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March 27, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
New Orleans, LA, US
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