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ALLEGORICAL FIGURES OF THE NILE AND THE TIBER French school around I7I5 Pair of bronzes with reddish-brown patina H. 40 - W. 75 - D. 32,6 cm (the Nile) H. 43 - W. 74.6 - D. 32.8 cm (the Tiber) Provenance : - Monegasque Collection Related works: - Imperial Rome, The Nile and the Tiber, marble, size: 165 x 310 x 147 and 222 x 317 x 131 cm, Rome, Vatican Museum, inv. 22838 and Paris, Louvre Museum, inv. dMR356 - Pierre Bourdy and Lorenzo Ottoni, The Nile and the Tiber, between 1685 and 1692, marble, size: 155 x 317 x 132 and 162 x 317 x 132 cm, Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, inv. MR1765 and MR1964 - Attributed to Corneille van Clève, Allegorical figures of the Nile and the Tiber, circa 1715, bronzes, size : 38 x 70,5 x 30,2 cm, London, Wallace Collection, inv. S179 and S180 - France, 17th century, The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, size: 35.8 x 76.5 x 31.7 and 42 x 74.5 x 32.8 cm, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, Inv. H4 155/046 and H4 143/002 - Attributed to Martin Carlier (ca. 1653- after 1700), The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, size: 35.6 x 76.2 x 32.4 and 42.5 x 74.6 x 33.7 cm, San Marino (California), Huntington Library, Inv. 11.1 and 11.2 - France, early 18th century, The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, size : 36 x 74 x 33 and 42,5 x 74,2 x 32,5 cm, New-York, Peter Marino collection. Related literature: - F. Haskell and N.Penny, For the love of the antique, the Greco-Roman statuary and the European taste, Hachette, Paris, 1988 - M. Knoedler, The French Bronze 1500 to 1800, New York, 1968, n° 29 - A. Maral, F. La Moureyre, François Girardon, 1628-1715 : Le sculpteur de Louis XIV, Paris, Arthena, 2015 ; - F. Souchal, The French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. The reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, Cassirer ed., 1977 - R. Wenley, French Bronzes in the Wallace collection, London, The trustees of the Wallace Collection, 2002, pp. 38-41 - J. Warren, Beauty and Power. Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino collection, Wallace Collection, London, Wallace Collection, 2010, pp. 166-172
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ALLEGORICAL FIGURES OF THE NILE AND THE TIBER French school around I7I5 Pair of bronzes with reddish-brown patina H. 40 - W. 75 - D. 32,6 cm (the Nile) H. 43 - W. 74.6 - D. 32.8 cm (the Tiber) Provenance : - Monegasque Collection Related works: - Imperial Rome, The Nile and the Tiber, marble, size: 165 x 310 x 147 and 222 x 317 x 131 cm, Rome, Vatican Museum, inv. 22838 and Paris, Louvre Museum, inv. dMR356 - Pierre Bourdy and Lorenzo Ottoni, The Nile and the Tiber, between 1685 and 1692, marble, size: 155 x 317 x 132 and 162 x 317 x 132 cm, Paris, Jardin des Tuileries, inv. MR1765 and MR1964 - Attributed to Corneille van Clève, Allegorical figures of the Nile and the Tiber, circa 1715, bronzes, size : 38 x 70,5 x 30,2 cm, London, Wallace Collection, inv. S179 and S180 - France, 17th century, The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, size: 35.8 x 76.5 x 31.7 and 42 x 74.5 x 32.8 cm, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, Inv. H4 155/046 and H4 143/002 - Attributed to Martin Carlier (ca. 1653- after 1700), The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, size: 35.6 x 76.2 x 32.4 and 42.5 x 74.6 x 33.7 cm, San Marino (California), Huntington Library, Inv. 11.1 and 11.2 - France, early 18th century, The Nile and the Tiber, bronzes, size : 36 x 74 x 33 and 42,5 x 74,2 x 32,5 cm, New-York, Peter Marino collection. Related literature: - F. Haskell and N.Penny, For the love of the antique, the Greco-Roman statuary and the European taste, Hachette, Paris, 1988 - M. Knoedler, The French Bronze 1500 to 1800, New York, 1968, n° 29 - A. Maral, F. La Moureyre, François Girardon, 1628-1715 : Le sculpteur de Louis XIV, Paris, Arthena, 2015 ; - F. Souchal, The French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. The reign of Louis XIV, Oxford, Cassirer ed., 1977 - R. Wenley, French Bronzes in the Wallace collection, London, The trustees of the Wallace Collection, 2002, pp. 38-41 - J. Warren, Beauty and Power. Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino collection, Wallace Collection, London, Wallace Collection, 2010, pp. 166-172
