Bacchus
A Marble Bust.
Jan van Logteren (1709 - 1745).
c.1730.
62 cms tall.
From the excellent website of London dealer Benjamin Proust
https://benjaminproust.com/project/jan-van-logteren/
I have touched on the works of the van Logteren family in a previous post on my parallel blog -
but whilst searching for works by Francesco Fanelli I came across these photograph on the excellent website of London Sculpture dealer Benjamin Proust and have taken the liberty to post his photographs here.
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/09/terracotta-busts-by-jan-van-logteren.html
see also - https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/.../NIFT_2006_023.pdf?...2
http://www.cascade1987.nl/bulletins/VanLogterens-D.DeKool-BulletinCascade-2009-1.pdf
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Bacchus
Jan van Logteren
1739.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Lisbon, Portugal.
https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/
I assume that this dating is correct but I was unable to inspect the back. The Gulbenkian is a fabulous museum, particularly with its Islamic holdings. It is worth visiting for its architecture alone, which is uncompromisingly modernist.
I would say that this bust has at some time in its life been placed outside and has suffered some weathering and has probably been repolished. The surface is not nearly as well defined (particularly in the depiction of the fur on the lion skin) as the detail on the Proust bust above.
Photographs above taken by the author.
We recently spent a few wonderful days in Portugal, primarily to visit the Royal Palace at Queluz in order to inspect photograph the series of magnificent lead sculpture by John Cheere (1709 - 87). recently restored by Rupert Harris.
It is my intention to eventually put together a series of posts on the works of John Cheere which have been largely ignored with the exception of the publication of the Man at Hyde Park Corner by Terry Friedman and Timothy Clifford of 1974 - I think the time might be right for a serious assessment of his career - a task not to be taken on lightly!
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