Apollo Slaying the Python
Giovanni Francesco Susini (1585–1653)
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- bronze, wooden plinth, painted in black
- Measurements
- 39.3 × 23.2 × 22.7 cm total dimensions incl. python and base, 39.3 × 23.2 × 19.8 cm Apollo and base, 13.5 × 22.2 × 14.5 cm + pins 2.8 cm, python
- Acquisition
- acquired in 2022 by Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein
- Artists/makers/authors
- Giovanni Francesco Susini
- Inventory number
- SK 1652
- Provenance
- before 2018 European private collection; 3 July 2018 Auction Sotheby's London, Old Master Sculpture & Works Of Art, Lot 79; private property; acquired in 2022 by Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein from Sotheby's Kunstauktionen Ges.m.b.H, Vienna
- Iconography
- Apollo conquers the giant serpent Python
Ausst.-Kat. Gegossen für die Ewigkeit. Die Bronzen der Fürsten von Liechtenstein. Eine Ausstellung in der Reihe MÄRZ IM PALAIS im Gartenpalais Liechtenstein, Alexandra Hanzl, Johann Kräftner, Katharina Leithner, Arthur Stögmann, Johann Kräftner (Hg.), Gartenpalais Liechtenstein, Wien 1.–31.3.2023, erschienen Wien 2023, S. 100–101, Kat.-Nr. 34
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