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.