Paragone di Fiandra (bust); Rosso di Malcesine and white marbre (drape);
Lumachella nera (base)
30 ¾ in. high (78cm.).
Provenance : private collection.
Comparative literature: Sylvia Pressouyre, Nicolas Cordier – recherches sur la sculpture à Rome autour de 1600, Rome, Ecole française, 1984, p. 413-415, cat. 21, ill. 190-198 ; Christian Theuerkauff, “Anmerkungen zu Melchior Barthel,” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins fur Kunstwissen – Band XLI – Heft 1/4, Berlin, 1987, p. 71-117; Rosario Coppel Aréizaga, Museo del Prado – Catálogo de la Escultura de Época Moderna – Siglos XVI-XVIII, Madrid, 1998, cat. 26 ; Andrea Bacchi, La Scultura a Venezia da Sansovino a Canova, Milan, 2000, p. 692-694, ill. 226 ; Andrea Bacchi, ed., Scultura del ‘600 a Roma, Milan, 2000, p. 792-793, ill. 271 ; Paul H. D. Kaplan, “Italy, 1490-1700”, The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition: Artists to the Renaissance and Baroque, III, part I, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2010.
