Wayfarers

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 10814-15

Material and technique

Bronze, patina

Author

Italo-Flemish School

Dating

c.1825-1850

Dimensions

21.8 x 6.2 x 10.5 cm. and 20.5 x 10 x 11 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

The figure of a wayfarer, who is depicted wearing Renaissance clothing and holding a pail on his shoulders as he leans on a stick, has been carefully worked. Santangelo compared it to the well-known Man Holding Two Geese, a bronze statue for the small fountain in the piazza in Nuremberg, made around 1550 by an artist called the Meister des Gänsemännchens. There are identical versions of the two works in other collections, though they bear various different inscriptions on the pail and the clothes, “A ROME", “A VENISE”, “A BREST”. The Palazzo Venezia work bears no inscription.

Pietro Cannata 

Bibliography

A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, pp. 27-28.