D'APRÈS BARTHÉLÉMY PRIEUR

AFTER BARTHÉLÉMY PRIEUR
(CIRCA 1536-1611)
Woman cutting her nails
Small bronze figure of a nude woman,
seated on a stump covered with
drapery. Her head is covered by a bonnet.
She is holding her right foot with both hands,
her right hand holding a pair of scissors
(scissors) to cut. Her left foot
resting on the ground. Three bronze tenons,
one under the foot on the ground, two under the stump.
France, first half of the 17th century.
Height: 11.1 cm - Width: 5.5 cm
Depth: 7.8 cm
(Wear, traces of gilding, on a rectangular base
base in blackened wood)

PROVENANCE
- Nicolas de Hurtado Collection (1854 - 1920)
- Probably stolen on December 21, 1937 and
returned to the family on the 23rd to the widow
of the previous owner née Amparo, baronne Beyens
(1859-1946)
- Still in the family to this day.

A bronze almost identical to ours
to Barthélémy Prieur is preserved at the
Allen Memorial Art Museum [Object number
1954.22], another with a variant (stump replaced by draperies)
replaced by draperies) and attributed to the workshop
of Barthélémy Prieur is preserved at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. [Inv. no. :
1957.14.24]

The subject of our small bronze is based on the iconographic
iconographic source is the "Venus removing a thorn
from the foot", part of the decor of the stufetta
stufetta Bibbiena, created in Raphael's entourage
in 1516 and partially known thanks to the engravings
by Marco Dente.