About the Artwork
Dancing Faun
early 18th century
Massimiliano Soldani
1656-1740
Italian
Unknown
Bronze
Overall: 13 1/4 × 6 × 4 3/4 inches (33.7 × 15.2 × 12.1 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
69.296
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in red, painted on back of base: 300 [possibly Grigaut's inventory record]
Provenance
Estate of Paul L. Grigaut
1969-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lankheit, Klaus. "Eine Serie Barocker Antiken-Nachbildungen aus der Werkstatt des Massimiliano Soldani." Mittielungen des Deutchen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteilung 65, (1958): p. 192, 198.
The Twilight of the Medici, Late Baroque Art in Florence, 1670-1743. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts and Palazzo Pitti. Florence, 1974, pp. 114, 115.
Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 152.
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Massimiliano Soldani, Dancing Faun, early 18th century, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 69.296.
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