Giovanni Francesco Susini
( 1585 - c. 1653 )
The Borghese Satyr After the Antique
First half of the 17th century
Bronze
33 cm (13 inches)
Private collection, USA
The late Professor Michael Jaffé, CBE (1923 - 1997), from whom on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1976 - 2016
Related Literature
W. Helbig, Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 4th edition, vol. 2, Tübingen 1966, p. 1944
F. Souchal, ‘La collection du sculpteur Girardon d’après son inventaire après décès’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXXXII, 1973, pp. 1–112, esp. pp. 73–74, no. 8, pl. II, fig. 158
I marmi antichi della Galleria Borghese: La collezione archeologica di Camillo e Francesco Borghese, Rome, 2003, pp. 111–13, no. 74, and colour plate 8 on p. 32 (compare plate 9 for the statue of Bacchus, also from the Ceoli collection)
W. Helbig, Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 4th edition, vol. 2, Tübingen 1966, p. 1944
F. Souchal, ‘La collection du sculpteur Girardon d’après son inventaire après décès’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXXXII, 1973, pp. 1–112, esp. pp. 73–74, no. 8, pl. II, fig. 158
I marmi antichi della Galleria Borghese: La collezione archeologica di Camillo e Francesco Borghese, Rome, 2003, pp. 111–13, no. 74, and colour plate 8 on p. 32 (compare plate 9 for the statue of Bacchus, also from the Ceoli collection)