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Florentine Boar
Susini, Antonio - Enlarge image
Florentine Boar
- Object:
Statuette
- Place of origin:
Italy (made)
- Date:
ca. 1600-1700 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Susini, Antonio (associated with, maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Cast bronze
- Credit Line:
Given by Dr W. L. Hildburgh FSA
- Museum number:
A.1-1960
- Gallery location:
Sculpture, room 111, case 4
Bronzes often exist in a number of versions, made over many decades or even centuries. This is achieved through a variety of means, such as changes in the wax, new moulds taken from an existing bronze or the reuse of the existing model. This figure of a boar together with inv. no. A.153-1910 look almost identical. One is a fine, hollow cast (inv. no. A.153-1910), probably from the workshop of Antonio Susini, one of Giambologna’s most skilled assistants. This figure, however, is an ‘aftercast’, so called because it was cast from a mould taken from an existing bronze. The cast is solid and on the base are the outlines of the original hollow cast from which it was taken.
