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Auction: 8004 - An Important Collection of Renaissance Medals & Plaquettes
Lot: 14

Andrea Briosco, called Riccio (c.1470-1532) Judith with the head of Holofernes, rectangular bronze plaquette, 102mm. x 80.5mm., a tiny number 3 lightly scratched in the top right corner, a very fine old cast with dark brown patina, areas of solder on the reverse Judith, standing at left, with her left leg bent forward and bending slightly to her left, holds the head of Holofernes over a sack which is held open by her old servant woman. The pose is static, as though for an instant the two women are lost in thought as they contemplate the severed head Three signed examples of this famous plaquette exist, in Berlin, in the Musée Jacquemart-André and the Dreyfus example now in the Kress collection in Washington. The design is based on an engraving by Girolamo Mocetto after Andrea Mantegna (Bartsch 1; Hind, E.I.E. v, pp. 164-5, no.10, pl. 725). References Bange 1922, 356 (signed A. RIº); Cott, p. 149; Kress 208 (signed RºI); Florence, Bargello, Carrand 400; London, British Museum, T.W. Greene, 97; Maclagan p.21; Migeon, in Les Arts, no. 80, August 1908, p. 25; Molinier 218; Paris, Cabinet des Médailles, Armand-Valton, 2529; Paris, Louvre, 321; Paris, Musée Jacqumart-André 493 (signed A.RºI.); Planiscig 1924, 419; Planiscig 1927, p.436, fig.521, no. 201; Ricci ii, p. 92, no. 125; Sambon 85, pl. IV; Venice, Museo Correr, 34 Estimate £ 3,000-5,000

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