Lot 334: ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO FANELLI (1577 - AFTER 1642) ANGLO-ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY

ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO FANELLI (1577 - AFTER 1642) ANGLO-ITALIAN, 17TH CENTURY ACTAEON DEVOURED BY HIS HOUNDS the base inscribed Adriaen de Vries late C16 in pencil on the underside of the base and with a label inscribed A member of the JAMNITZER family Christoph? Wenzel? P.W. bronze, on a later black marble base bronze: 9.5cm., 3¾in. base: 2cm., ¾in.

Further casts of this small bronze are in the Victora and Albert Museum (inv. no. A119-1910) and with Daniel Katz (see A collector's cabinet II, exh. cat. Daniel Katz Ltd., London, 2008, no. 17). The other versions represent Actaeon with his fingers clenched rather than outstretched.