18th century French school in the Renaissance... - Lot 190 - Audap & Associés

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18th century French school in the Renaissance... - Lot 190 - Audap & Associés
18th century French school in the Renaissance style Leda and the Swan, after a work by Michelangelo (1475-1564) Diana with the Stag after a work by Jean Goujon (1510-1572) Pair of oval marble bas-reliefs (Wear, stains.) Height : 30,5 cm 30.5 cm ; Width : 40 cm and Height : 32 cm ; Width : 40 cm. 32 cm ; Width : 41 cm In carved and gilded wood frames with flowers Height 46.5 cm; Width : 54.5 cm; Depth : 9.5 cm and Height : 47 cm; Width : 41 cm 47 cm ; Width : 55,5 cm ; Depth : 10,5 cm Related works: - Cornelis Bos (ca. 1510 before 1566), Leda and the Swan, engraving after Michelangelo Buonarroti (30.2 x 41.3 cm), New York, Metropolitan Museum, inv. no. 57.658.15. - Attributed to Jean Goujon, Diane au cerf, Écouen, Musée national de la Renaissance, Inv: E.CL.19272, former Alexandre Lenoir collection. These two bas-reliefs, conceived as a pair, take up two mythological themes, one from a model of the Italian Renaissance, the other from the French Renaissance, offering us a testimony of the survival of the models of the 16th century and of a reiterated taste of the 18th century for antique subjects. The first bas-relief is an interpretation of a painting by Michelangelo, Leda and the Swan, painted around 1530 for the Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso d'Este. The painting, which was never delivered to its commissioner, was sent by Michelangelo to Fontainebleau for King Francis I. It entered the royal collections but disappeared in the 17th century. All that is known today are rare copies and an autograph preparatory drawing in red chalk, a study for the head of Leda, kept at the Uffizi Museum in Florence. It was probably inspired by an engraving by Cornelis Bos (1510-av. 1566) published in 1537 that our sculptor executed this bas-relief. The second bas-relief also represents an iconographic subject of a mythical woman and a man transformed into an animal, that of Diana and the stag. Based on a model attributed to Jean Goujon, a great master of the French Renaissance, this composition, in which the chaste goddess embraces Actaeon changed into a deer, is inspired by traditional representations of this myth, at the crossroads of a work by Rosso Fiorentino and Primaticcio. Expert : SCULPTURE & COLLECTION Alexandre LACROIX Élodie JEANNEST DE GYVES Benoit BERTRAND
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