Don Gaspar de Guzman, Duke of San Lucar, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645)

ca. between 1630 and 1635

Francesco Fanelli Italian, active 1608 - died 1661

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Don Gaspar de Guzman, Duke of San Lucar, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645)

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Title Don Gaspar de Guzman, Duke of San Lucar, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645)

Artwork Date ca. between 1630 and 1635

Artist Francesco Fanelli

Life Dates active 1608 - died 1661

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall (sculpture): 15 3/4 × 12 × 6 5/8 inches (40 × 30.5 × 16.8 cm) Overall (base): 8 1/2 × 8 3/8 × 15 1/2 inches (21.6 × 21.3 × 39.4 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 29.348

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Provenance

Marchese Spinola [possibly Ambrogio? 1571-1630] probably until 1875, Spinola family (Genoa, Italy)

(Stefano Bardini, Florence, Italy)

William Newall (Croxley Green, England)

June 27, 1922, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 66

probably Eugene Bureau (Antwerp, Belgium) 1927, sold by Mensing

(Achille de Clemente, Florence, Italy)

1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Justi. "Die Reiterstatue Philip IV von Pietro Tacca." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 1883, reprinted in Drei Jahrhunderte Spanischen Kunstlebens, 1908, vol. 2, pp. 245-274.

Bode, W. Die italienischen Bronzestatuetten der Renaissance, Berlin: B. Cassirer, vol. 3, 1907, p. 3. [as Giovanni da Bologna.]

Heil, Walter. "An Italian Equestrian Statuette." Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 4 (January 1930): pp. 46-47 (cover ill.). [as Tacca.]

Valentiner, W.R. "An Equestrian Statuette of Philip IV of Spain" Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 3 (December 1935): pp. 34-38 (ill.).

Leith-Jasper, M. Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunsthistoriches Museum. Vienna, 1936, pp. 244-245, no. 65.

Master Bronzes. Exh. cat., Albright Gallery. Buffalo, 1937, no. 144.

Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, pp. 93-94, no. 91 (ill.).

The Italian Heritage. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. New York, 1967, no. 55 (ill.).

Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1969, p. 67, no. 75.

Huemer, F. Corpus Rubenianum, XIX, Portrait. London, 1978, p. 150ff, no. 30, pl. 91 (ill.).

Volk, M.C. "Rubens in Madrid and the Decorations of the Salon Nuevo in the Palace." Burlington Magazine (March 1980): p. 168.

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MD, and J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY,

Glorious Horsemen Equestrian Art in Europe, 1500-1800. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts and J.B. Speed Museum. Springfield and Louisville, 1981, p. 111 (ill.).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Boström, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 134.

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attributed to Francesco Fanelli, Don Gaspar de Guzman, Duke of San Lucar, known as the Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645), ca. between 1630 and 1635, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.348.