Ludovico Lombardo
Bust of Lucius Junius Brutuscirca 1550

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Model Lives in Baroque Italy

Bronze bust of a bearded man with deep black patina, wearing a draped military cloak fastened with a rosette fibula, on a variegated marble pedestal

Bronze bust of a bearded man in three-quarter view, draped in a paludamentum fastened at the shoulder, with dark patinated surface and finely detailed curly hair and beard, mounted on a cylindrical marble socle.

Bronze bust of a man seen from behind, dark patinated surface with draped garment across the shoulders, short curled hair visible at the nape; mounted on a turned marble pedestal.

Artist or Maker: Ludovico Lombardo
Italy, Ferrara, circa 1509-1575
Title: Bust of Lucius Junius Brutus
Place Made: Italy
Date Made: circa 1550
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Overall incl. socle: 23 × 27 × 11 in. (58.4 × 68.58 × 27.94 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2005.60
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Count Wilhelm Pourtalès (1815–1889), Berlin and Venice, as of 1883, by inheritance to; Count Friedrich (Fritz) Pourtalès (1853–1928), Berlin, and later (as Prussian ambassador to Russia, 1907–14), Saint Petersburg. Botkin (probably Mikhail Botkine) collection, Saint Petersburg. Koenigsberg or Konningsberg, 6 Sept. 1924, to; [Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, sold 2005 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
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Wieczorek, Uwe. Masterpieces from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein: Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Weaponry. Berne: Benteli, 1997.
Boström, Antonia. "Ludovico Lombardo and the Taste for the all'Antica Bust in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome." In Large Bronzes in the Renaissance, edited by Peta Motture, 154-179. Washinton, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2003.
Darr, Alan P. "A Pair of Large Bronze Deities in Detroit: New Research and an Attribution to Danese Cattaneo." In Large Bronzes in the Renaissance, edited by Peta Motture, 214-239. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2003.
Haithman, Diane. "Ready to View at LACMA; a Lombardo Bust and a Gandolfi Painting Bought with Ahmanson Funds are Put on Display: [HOME EDITION]." Los Angeles Times, July 27, 2005.
Masello, David, Dick Kagan, Doris Goldstein. "Top 100 Treasures." Art & Antiques 28, no.11 (2005): 75-103.
"Museum Acquisitions 2005: A Selection." Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 162, no.526 (2005): 32-38.
Marandel, J. Patrice, and Claudia Einecke. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: European Art. Paris: Fondation BNP Paribas, 2006.

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