Farmer

Object belonging

One's own

Category

Bronze sculpture

City

Rome

Location

Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Specific location

Room 17

Inventory

PV 10816

Material and technique

Bronze, patina

Author

Meister des Gänsemännchens

Dating

c. 1550

Dimensions

13.5 x 8.5 x 4.5 cm.

Origin

Auriti Collection (1963)

Image copyright

SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma

Short description

This figure, a farmer, wears a short shirt that is open at the neck and tied by a belt at the waist. In his right hand he holds a basket and in his left a stick, of which only a small part now remains. There are many versions of this bronze, which are often more precisely sculpted and better conserved than this example.

Pietro Cannata 

Bibliography

L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 47; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 29.