Grand Tour Bronze of the Equestrian Statue of Colleoni After Verrocchio

A dramatic patinated bronze statue depicting a mounted crusader on his rearing horse ready to strike a mortal blow to a fallen Saracen lying beneath him on a rocky landscape. In a desperate attempt to defend himself the Saracen is shown thrusting his sword into the chest of the the crusader's horse. The bronze grouping is mounted on a green scagllola painted marble base with gilt bronze trim. While the bronze is not signed it had to be cast after a hugely famous bronze very similar statue by Jean-François-Théodore Gechter (1795, Paris - 1844, Paris) titled "The Combat of Charles Martel...

A fairly large 19th century French bronze statue of the Milo of Croton on a stepped marble base after the original marble statue by sculptor Edme Dumont (1...

A bronze statue of a young boy standing and holding a tethered rooster with wildly flapping wings in his arms. The boy is presumably in a farmers' market and his expression shows him screaming at the top of his lungs trying to sell the rooster. The boy is leaning against a standing wooden wheelbarrow...

A patinated bronze allegorical statue of a nude bacchante, the roman goddess of wine, in the manner of Clodion with right hand raised and holding a bunch of grapes, while the other r...

After Andrea del Verrocchio A bronze equestrian group of Colleone, late 19th-early 20th century brown patina, finely cast and chiseled, on a ...

Beautiful bronze sculpture with a medal patina depicting the Condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni. This bronze equestrian statue originally stood on the Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo i...

A 19th century Grand Tour bronze statue of Narcissus. Foundry mark Sommer Napoli engraved on circular plinth. Includes original Victorian er...

19th century Grand Tour bronze statue of the ancient Greek Dionysus. Dionysus also known as Bacchus, was the god of wine, fertility and festiv...