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拍品专文
L’histoire de Nessus et Déjanire ramène à la fin de la longue et mouvementée vie d’Hercule. Déjanire, la femme d’Hercule, a été enlevée par le centaure Nessus lorsque ce dernier lui proposa de la porter le long d’une rivière. Hercule tua Nessus à l’aide de son arc, qui dans ses derniers moments convaincu Déjanire d’administrer un poison à son mari. Hercule enfila une tunique empoisonnée et fut mortellement brulé. Il a plus tard été placé sous le statut de dieu et a rejoint les autres dieux et déesses sur le Mont Olympe.
Le thème de l’enlèvement a été repris par Giambologna (1529-1608), sculpteur à la cour des Médicis (Grands Ducs de Toscane). La première représentation, qualifiée de « type A » par Avery et Radcliffe (Giambologna, op. cit., p. 109), montre Déjanire assise sur le dos de Nessus ; les deux autres variantes sont de « types B et C ». Des documents montrent que Giambologna a conçu ce modèle de « type A » en 1575. Il est également connu qu'Antonio Susini a continué à produire des moulages de ce modèle - ainsi que ses propres variantes - après avoir quitté l’atelier de Giambologna en 1600.
The story of Nessus and Deianira records the denouement of Hercules' long and eventful life. Deianira, the wife of Hercules, was abducted by the centaur Nessus when he offered to ferry her across a river. Hercules then slew Nessus but the latter, in his dying moments, tricked Deianira into administering a fatal potion to her husband. Hercules donned a shirt which had been sprinkled with a potion that ate into his flesh with a mysterious fire and then killed him. He was later raised to the status of god and joined the other gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus.
Court sculpture to the Medici (Grand Dukes of Tuscany), Giambologna designed three principal variations of bronze statuettes depicting the theme. The arrangement of the bronze group offered here is what Avery and Radcliffe defined as a Type A cast (Giambologna, op. cit., p. 109) - the two other variations being labelled Types B and C. Documentary evidence demonstrates that Giambologna conceived it in 1575 and it is also known that Antonio Susini continued to produce casts of this model - as well as his own variants - after he left Giambologna's workshop in 1600.
Le thème de l’enlèvement a été repris par Giambologna (1529-1608), sculpteur à la cour des Médicis (Grands Ducs de Toscane). La première représentation, qualifiée de « type A » par Avery et Radcliffe (Giambologna, op. cit., p. 109), montre Déjanire assise sur le dos de Nessus ; les deux autres variantes sont de « types B et C ». Des documents montrent que Giambologna a conçu ce modèle de « type A » en 1575. Il est également connu qu'Antonio Susini a continué à produire des moulages de ce modèle - ainsi que ses propres variantes - après avoir quitté l’atelier de Giambologna en 1600.
The story of Nessus and Deianira records the denouement of Hercules' long and eventful life. Deianira, the wife of Hercules, was abducted by the centaur Nessus when he offered to ferry her across a river. Hercules then slew Nessus but the latter, in his dying moments, tricked Deianira into administering a fatal potion to her husband. Hercules donned a shirt which had been sprinkled with a potion that ate into his flesh with a mysterious fire and then killed him. He was later raised to the status of god and joined the other gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus.
Court sculpture to the Medici (Grand Dukes of Tuscany), Giambologna designed three principal variations of bronze statuettes depicting the theme. The arrangement of the bronze group offered here is what Avery and Radcliffe defined as a Type A cast (Giambologna, op. cit., p. 109) - the two other variations being labelled Types B and C. Documentary evidence demonstrates that Giambologna conceived it in 1575 and it is also known that Antonio Susini continued to produce casts of this model - as well as his own variants - after he left Giambologna's workshop in 1600.