Lot 25
After Jean Boulogne, called Giambologna, Crouching Nude Female Figure, bronze, 17th century, a variant of the Crouching Venus types, portrayed with her left hand raised and looking upwards in surprise, on an integrally cast loosely circular base, 9.5cm high; Later mounted on to a carved beechwood truncated fluted columnar plinth with square section walnut socle, the overall height, 19cm COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Wilhelm Bode, The Italian Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, M.A.S. De Reinis, New York, 1980. See Pl. CCVIII (iii) for a highly similar example held at the Staatliche Museen, Berlin-Dahlem, described as Florentine and of late 16th century make
