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DUQUESNOY, François
(b. 1597, Bruxelles, d. 1643, Livorno)
Sleeping Silenus
c. 1620
Bronze
Rubenshuis, Antwerp
Duquesnoy appears to have started making sculptures soon after he arrived there, mainly of secular, principally mythological, subjects. The surviving examples of these early works, such as the relief of the Sleeping Silenus, are items of small sculpture made very clearly under the influence of the classical ideal beauty. In this highly classicist work Duquesnoy was trying to emulate the Hellenistic sculptures with which he had made himself so familiar.