17th-century Venetian school - Lot 78

17th-century Venetian school after a model by Alessandro VITTORIA (1525-1608) Jupiter Bronze with light brown patina H.33 cm, on a Louis XIV period base H. 9 cm Accents and small missing parts on the base Provenance : Collection de Madame la Marquise de Ganay, sa vente Galerie Georges Petit 8, 9 et 10 mai 1922, n° 100; Acquired at this sale by Charles Jacob Lévy; Collection Léon et Simone Herzog, née Lévy; By descent. Bibliography: - J. Babelon, "Collections de Mme la Marquise de Ganay", Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, t. 41, Paris, January 1922, our bronze mentioned p. 294. Related literature - Andrea Bacchi, Lia Camerlengo, Manfred Leithe-Jasper, La Bellissima maniera : Alessandro Vittoria e la scultura veneta del Cinquecento, cat. Exp. Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento:, servizio del Buonconsiglio, monumenti e collezioni provinciali, Castello del Buonconsiglio, 1999. Related works: - Alessandro Vittoria (1525 - 1608), Jupiter, circa 1580, bronze, H. 34 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. 5662 ; - Venice after a model by Alessandro Vittoria (1525 -1608), Jupiter, mid-16th century, bronze, H. 32 cm, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum, inv. Н.ск-1127 ; - Attributed to Alessandro Vittoria (1525 - 1608), Jupiter, last quarter of the 16th century, bronze, H. 33.3 x W. 13 x D. 12 cm, Venice, Ca' d'Oro, inv. Br. 20. Our bronze is related to Alessandro Vittoria's Jupiter in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The model was probably adopted by various workshops from the 1580s onwards, with derivatives attributed to Tiziano Aspetti (c. 1557- 1559 - 1606). Our fine example comes from the prestigious collection of the Marquise de Ganay. Acquired in 1922 by Charles Jacob Lévy, it has remained in the same family ever since.