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Kneeling Youth with a Shell
Sculptor:
Campagna, Girolamo
(After)
Founder:
Unknown
(Uncertain)
Bronze, cast, with light brown patina, highly polished. The nude youth kneels on his left knee with back and head bent forward to support a large shell, which he holds with both hands. The bronze is accompanied by an oval, grey-veined yellow marble base, moulded at the top and bottom, with screwed into the top with two screws, a smaller, oval wooden platform (not accessioned).
History note: Cavendish-Bentinck Collection, 1891; 1893 exhibited at the New Gallery; by 1904 William Newall, by whom lent to the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition (case I no. 5); His Sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1922, 'Catalogue of the collection of objects of art chiefly of the Renaissance period, bronzes, majolica, sculpture and furniture . . . formed by that well-known connoisseur William Newall, Esq., deceased late of Redheath, Croxley Green, Herts', lot. 80 - illustrated; bought by Durlacher (£462); L.D. Cunliffe
L.D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937
Height: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
Circa
1900
CE
The original model is conventionally ascibed to Girolamo Campagna
Casting (process)
: Bronze, cast, with light brown patina, highly polished
Patinating
Polishing
Accession number: M.5-1938
Primary reference Number: 13898
External ID: CAM_CCF_M_5_1938
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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