Lot 424: ORAZIO ALBRIZZI ACTIVE 1612-1651

EQUESTRIAN GROUP OF MARCUS AURELIUS
brownish patina beneath green-black lacquer


inscribed on side of base: ....copia de M. aurelio pio posto a Campidiglio..../....di bronzo fatto da modello di Horation Albrizzi Romano....al(?) anno (?).......

height 29 in., length 25 in.; 73.7 cm, 63.5 cm

bronze

<P>first half 17th century</P>

Heim Summer 1966, no. 46; Heim Summer 1967, no. 13; Heim Summer 1982, no. 16

Montagu 1996, p. 6, fig. 9 (illus.); Frankfurt am Main 1985, no. 319 (illus.)

Prince Trivulzio, Milan; Heim Gallery, London

Orazio Albrizzi was a founder active first in Piacenza and then in Rome in the first half of the seventeenth century, and participated in the casting of Bernini's Baldacchino at St. Peter's. He cast a number of models after Antique and Renaissance sculptures in large scale, similar to the size of the present bronze, including the Farnese Hercules, the Borghese Centaur, the Borghese Gladiator, Giambologna's Neptune, and the present Marcus Aurelius. A group of bronzes by Albrizzi, including a version of Marcus Aurelius, appear in the inventory of the collection of the Marchesi Spinola in Genoa. Several of these were inscribed similarly to the the present lot and a bronze figure of Germanicus formerly with Daniel Katz, Ltd in London also bears a similar inscription.