Workshop of Barthélémy PRIEUR (1536-1611)
Narcissus... Lot 3
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Workshop of Barthélémy PRIEUR (1536-1611)
Narcissus or Ephebe
Bronze statuette with brown patina and blackened wooden base.
H. 25 cm high
LITERATURE AT RAPPORT : Robert Wenley, French Bronzes in the Wallace Collection, The Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 2002, pp.26-27.
This work, produced by the workshop of Barthélémy Prieur, is directly inspired by Michelangelo's (1475-1564) Dying Slave (preserved in the Louvre Museum, no. MR 1589) brought to France and presented to King Francis I in 1546. After beginning his career in Italy, Rome and Turin, Barthélémy Prieur, back in France, became the official sculptor of King Henry IV, for whom he made a large number of bronze statuettes inspired both by ancient models and by the works of the Fontainebleau School of the second half of the 16th century. Some twenty Narcissus bronzes are listed, one of which is kept in the Wallace Collection in London (no. S74).
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