A PAIR OF 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY BRONZE GROUPS DEPICTING LION ATTACKING A BULL AND LION ATTACKING A HORSE AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA (ITALIAN, 1529-1608) the dramatic groups with dark brown patination and finely delineated fur, the Lion and Horse inscribed: 18652B and: 137-1 to the underside, and each base incised: CC51 to the underside, one with remnants of a label, raised on gilt bronze mounted solid portor marble plinths,  the bronzes: 20cm x 27cm and 21.5cm x 25cm, the plinths each 10.5cm high x 27cm x 26cm (2) The finely delineated hair and fur apparent in the present pair of bronzes, worked into the surface with minute incisions indicate a 17th century date of manufacture and are also visible in the casts of the sculptor Francesco Fanelli. Giambologna derived the Lion Attacking a Horse from an ancient Greek fragment (now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome); and produced Lion Attacking a Bull as a pendant bronze. Both are typically high Baroque in their dramatic depiction of a life and death struggle between the lion and the domesticated beast, in each example the lion's claws tearing at the delicate flesh as the contorted body of the animal wrestles to survive. Typical of Giambologna's compositions, the bronzes are small scale and designed to be viewed from multiple angles rather than a single frontal plane. Examples cast by Antonio Susini (Italian, 1558-1624) are in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Inv. no. 94.SB.11.1) and comparable examples are recorded in the following museums: Bargello Florence Frick Collection, New York Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Louvre Museum, Paris Similar models were in the 1978 Arts Council Giambologna exhibition at the V&A Museum, London.