Bacchus and a Young Satyr

Giovanni Franceso Susini Italian, 17th century
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This finely chased bronze, based on Renaissance sculptures by Michelangelo and Jacopo Sansovino, bears an impressive provenance. First recorded in the d'Este collection in Mantua, the statuette entered the French royal collection around 1700, when Louis XIV acquired it from the estate of André Le Nôtre, the landscape architect for the gardens at Versailles. A nephew of Antonio Susini, Gianfrancesco took over the Florentine sculpture workshop in 1624.

Bacchus and a Young Satyr

ca. 1640

Giovanni Franceso Susini

17th century

Italian

Unknown

Bronze

Overall: 19 3/4 × 9 × 8 inches (50.2 × 22.9 × 20.3 cm) Overall (base): 2 1/2 × 8 1/8 × 6 1/8 inches (6.4 × 20.6 × 15.6 cm)

Sculpture

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund

82.27

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

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Marks, on back of Bacchus' left calf: No. 188 [Royal inventory mark from the collection of Louis XIV, King of France]

Provenance

possibly, D'Este (Mantua, Italy)

Andre Le Notre (France)

by 1707, Louis XIV

Louis XV

until 1796, Louis XVI

Citizen Jourdan (verrier à Muntzhal)

March 4, 1803, Jourdan sale

M. Cailard of Cailar

May 2, 1809, Cailard sale

Unknown collections

early 20th century, M. Robert Piquet

1932, Jansen, Maison de decoration

Christian Berard

Jean Michel Frank

art market (Paris, France)

(Alain Moatti, Paris, France)

1982-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Guiffrey, Jules. "Testament et inventaire apres deces de Andre Le Notre et autres documents le concernant." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'art français. 1911, p. 254.

Landais, H. "Sur quelques statuettes leguees par Le Notre a Louis XIV." Bulletin des musées de France 3 (1949): pp. 60-63.

Landais, H. Les bronzes italiens de la Renaissance. Paris, 1958, pp. 88-89.

Weihrauch, H.R. Europaische Bronzestatuetten. Braunchweig, 1967, p. 177, no. 344 (ill.).

Darr, A.P. "Florentine Baroque Bronzes by Susini, Soldani, and Foggini." Bulletin of the DIA 61, nos. 1-2 (Summer 1983), pp. 4-17, fig. 1 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 3 (1982/83): p. 5 (ill.).

Darr, A.P. "A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit." Apollo 124, no. 298, pp. 482-485.

Darr, A.P. "European sculpture and decorative arts acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts 1978-87." The Burlington Magazine 130 (June 1988): p. 496, fig. 102 (ill.).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat. no. 14 (ill.).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, with contributions by C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 135.

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attributed to Giovanni Franceso Susini, Bacchus and a Young Satyr, ca. 1640, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, 82.27.

Bacchus and a Young Satyr
Bacchus and a Young Satyr