Lot 228: A RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

A RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
BY PIERRE-ETIENNE MONNOT (1657-1733), 1695
Signed and dated 'P. S. Monnot Bgdis Fc.int 1695'; mounted on a modern slate ground; repairs and restorations; minor chips
26¼ x 19 in. (66.7 x 48.3 cm.)

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A. E. Brinckmann, Barock-Bozzetti - Italienische Bildhauer, Frankfurt, 1924, II, pp. 102-103, fig. 33, pl. 51.
R. Enggass, Early Eighteenth Century Sculpture in Rome - an illustrated catalogue raisonné, University Park and London, 1976, Text, pp. 77-89, Plates, pls. 22-23.
Washington, The National Gallery, The Treasure Houses of Britain - Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting, 3 Nov. 1985 - 6 Mar. 1986, no. 217 (entry by Malcolm Baker).
Peter Fusco 'Pierre-Etienne Monnot's Inventory after death' in Antologia di Belle Arti, NN 33-34, 1988, pp. 75-77.K.
S. Walker, The Sculptor Pietro Stefano Monnot in Rome, 1695-1713, I-II, Ann Arbor, 1995, pp. 83-94.
K. Kopanski and K. Weber eds., Das Marmorbad in der Kesseler Karlsaue - ein spätbarockes Gesamtkunstwerk mit bedeutenden Skulpturen und Reliefs von Pierre Etienne Monnot, Regensberg, 2003.

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A RECTANGULAR TERRACOTTA RELIEF OF THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
BY PIERRE-ETIENNE MONNOT (1657-1733), 1695
Signed and dated 'P. S. Monnot Bgdis Fc.int 1695'; mounted on a modern slate ground; repairs and restorations; minor chips
26¼ x 19 in. (66.7 x 48.3 cm.)