CIRCLE OF HANS REISINGER (GERMAN, ACTIVE LATE 16TH CENTURY), AFTER A MODEL BY GIAMBOLOGNA LION ATTACKING A HORSE bronze, with a slightly oxidised greenish brown patina (18cm long, 10.5cm high) Footnote: Note: Giambologna's model is based on the marble fragmentary sculpture now in the garden of the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome, which was restored in 1594. The present arrangement differs slightly to the original and its facture points to a South Germany origin. The distinct chiselling to the surface, and the treatment of the head and tail of the horse compare closely to a bronze figure of a unicorn in the Grunes Gewolbe Dresden attributed to Hans Reinsinger, who was active in Augsburg in the third quarter of the 16th century. For a comparable example also attributed to Reisinger, see Sotheby's London, Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art, 10 July 2014, lot 99. Literature: H. Weihrauch, Europaische Bronzestatuetten. Brunswick, 1967, figs. 383, 384, 385; D. Syndram, U. Arnold and J. Kappel, Das Grünes Gewölbe zu Dresden, Führer durch seine Sammlungen, Berlin, 1994, p. 72, fig. 5; A. Gibbon, Guide des Bronzes de la Renaissance Italienne, Paris, 1990, p. 249, no. 228; W. Seipel (ed.), Giambologna. Triumph des Kōrpers, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2006, pp. 284-285, no. 39; P. Wengraf, Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection, London, 2014, p. 181, fig. 2