Lot 81: ATTRIBUTED TO MASSIMILIANO SOLDANI BENZI (1656-1740) ITALIAN, FLORENCE, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

APOLLO MUSAGETES

overall: 44cm., 17¼in.

bronze, on a wood socle

Italian, Florence, early 18th century<BR>After the Antique

Sotheby's London, 3 March 1959, lot 129

The present figure of Apollo is based on Caccini's Apollo Musagete, a brilliant Mannerist restoration of an ancient torso which is in the Uffizi. Other casts are in the Quentin Collection and at Chatsworth House.

RELATED LITERATURE
K. Lankheit, 'Eine serie barocker Antiken-Nachbildungen aus der Werkstatt des Massimiliano Soldani', Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung, 65, 1958, pp. 186-98; C. Avery, 'Soldani's small bronze statuettes after "Old Master" Sculptures in Florence', Studies in European Sculpture, London, 1981, pp. 122?32; K. Lankheit, Die Modellsammlung der Porzellanmanufaktur Doccia. Ein Dokument italienischer Barockplastik, Munich, 1982; M. Leithe-Jasper and P. Wengraf, European bronzes from the Quentin collection, exh. cat. Frick Collection, New York, 2004, pp. 274-6, no. 31; G. Pratesi (ed.), Repertorio della Scultura Fiorentina del Seicento e Settecento, Turin, 1993, III, fig. 575