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Rearing Horse

Cavallo al galoppo - Rearing horse
Object belonging
One's own
Category
Bronze sculpture
City
Rome
Location
Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
Specific location
Room 17
Inventory
PV 09293
Material and technique
Bronze, reddish glossy varnish and traces of black lacquer
Author
Ferdinando Tacca (1619-1686)
Dating
c. 1650
Dimensions
21.5 x 23.5 x 11 cm.
Origin
Barsanti Collection (1934)
Image copyright
SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This bronze, together with another catalogued work (PV 9292), had been considered in the past to be by Pietro Tacca, but was recently attributed to his son Ferdinando, who succeeded his father in 1640 as the main sculptor to Ferdinando II de’ Medici in Florence. Two very similar versions were exhibited by the London gallery Daniel Katz in New York and in the Museo Civico Amedeo Lia in La Spezia. The attribution of this pair to Ferdinando Tacca was confirmed through a comparison with the horses that appear in the large antependium depicting the Stoning of St. Stephen, a work commissioned in 1650 for the main altar of Santo Stefano del Ponte in Florence.

Pietro Cannata

Bibliography

L. Pollak, Raccolta Alfredo Barsanti (Trecento-Settecento), Bergamo 1922, nos. 65-68 p. 95; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. Catalogo delle sculture, Rome 1954, p. 53; C. Avery, Giambologna: an exhibition of sculpture by the master and his followers; from the collection of Michael Hall, exh. cat., New York 1998, no. 128, pp. 204-207; K. Zock, European sculpture, exh. cat., New York-Prato 2002, no. 16, pp. 204-207; P. Cannata in M. G. Barberini - M. S. Sconci (eds.), Guida al Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome 2009, no. 70 p. 71.

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