Bacchus and a Young Satyr

ca. 1640

Attributed to Giovanni Franceso Susini Italian, 17th century

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European: Grand Tour of Italy-Florence, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

This finely chased bronze, based on Renaissance sculptures by Michelangelo and Jacopo Sansovino, bears an impressive provenance. First recorded in the d'Este collection in Mantua, the statuette entered the French royal collection around 1700, when Louis XIV acquired it from the estate of André Le Nôtre, the landscape architect for the gardens at Versailles. A nephew of Antonio Susini, Gianfrancesco took over the Florentine sculpture workshop in 1624.

Title Bacchus and a Young Satyr

Artwork Date ca. 1640

Artist Attributed to Giovanni Franceso Susini

Life Dates 17th century

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

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Medium Bronze

Dimensions Overall: 19 3/4 × 9 × 8 inches (50.2 × 22.9 × 20.3 cm) Overall (base): 2 1/2 × 8 1/8 × 6 1/8 inches (6.4 × 20.6 × 15.6 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 82.27

Markings

Marks Marks, on back of Bacchus' left calf: No. 188 [Royal inventory mark from the collection of Louis XIV, King of France]

Provenance

possibly, D'Este (Mantua, Italy);
Andre Le Notre (France);
by 1707, Louis XIV;
Louis XV;
until 1796, Louis XVI;
Citizen Jourdan (verrier à Muntzhal);
March 4, 1803, Jourdan sale;
M. Cailard of Cailar;
May 2, 1809, Cailard sale;
Unknown collections;
early 20th century, M. Robert Piquet;
1932, Jansen, Maison de decoration;
Christian Berard;
Jean Michel Frank;
art market (Paris, France);
(Alain Moatti, Paris, France);
1982-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Guiffrey, Jules. "Testament et inventaire apres deces de Andre Le Notre et autres documents le concernant." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'art français (1911): p. 254.

Landais, H. "Sur quelques statuettes leguees par Le Notre a Louis XIV." Bulletin des musées de France 3 (1949): pp. 60-63.

Landais, H. Les bronzes italiens de la Renaissance. Paris, 1958, pp. 88-89.

Weihrauch, H.R. Europaische Bronzestatuetten. Braunchweig, 1967, p. 177, no. 344 (ill.).

Darr, A.P. "Florentine Baroque Bronzes by Susini, Soldani, and Foggini." Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 1/2 (Summer 1983): pp. 4-17, (fig. 1).

Bulletin of the DIA 61, no. 3 (1982/83): p. 5 (ill.).

Darr, A.P. "A Valentiner Legacy: Italian Sculpture in Detroit." Apollo 124, no. 298 (1986): pp. 482-485.

Darr, A.P. "European sculpture and decorative arts acquired by the Detroit Institute of Arts 1978-87." The Burlington Magazine 130 (June 1988): p. 496, (fig. 102).

Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, cat. no. 14 (ill.).

Darr, A.P., P. Barnet, A. Bostrom, C. Avery, et al. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2 vols. London, 2002, vol. 2, cat. 135.

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attributed to Giovanni Franceso Susini, Bacchus and a Young Satyr, ca. 1640, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, 82.27.