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40. Francesco Fanelli: Cupid on Horseback London, Victoria & Albert Museum 1627, he worked in the court of Charles I in London. In 1641 or 1642, together with the English court, he presumably fled from the Civil War to Paris. It was there that he died sometime in the 1660s or 1670s.

11 The Italian master who excelled in the technique of bronze casting, which was relatively unknown in England, made his reputation mainly with bronze statuettes.

12 Nevertheless, only a few small bronzes survived that can be undoubtedly ascribed to him. From his equestrian statuettes, the Saint George and the Dragon, Nessos and Deianeira, Turkish Horseman in Combat with a Lion, Cupid on Horseback and Standing Horse are known, some of them in several copies.

13 Jolán Balogh drew parallels principally between Fanelli's Saint George and the Dragon, Turkish Horseman in Combat with a Lion, Cupid on Horseback and the Budapest bronze statuettes. Her ascription, however, is based exclusively on iconography and lacks stylistic grounds. This inadequacy is most conspicuous in the case of Fanelli's Cupid on Horseback, which was even reproduced by Jolán Balogh in her 1966 study (fig. 40).

14 John Pope-Henessy, who had previ" On the year of Fanelli's death, see Pope-Henessy, op. cit. (n. 10), 158; Radcliffe and Thornton, op. cit. (n. 5), 259-60; A. White, "Francesco Fanelli," in The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, Oxford University Press, Accessed (11 June 2004) <http://www.groveart.com>. 12 Pope-Henessy, op. cit. (n. 10), 161. 13 His only signed work is the bust of Charles II, Prince of Wales and on further statuettes of Faneli, see ibid., 158, 161 ; Radcliffe and Thornton, op. cit. (n. 5), 262, n. 28; U. Bergel and V. Krahn, Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock: Katalog der Sammlung, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton UlrichMuseum 1994, cat. 94-99. 14 Balogh, op. cit. (n. 8), 342.