AFTER BARTHELEMY PRIEUR (FRENCH, 1536-1611), A BRONZE FIGURE OF A YOUTH OR NARCISSUS ITALIAN OR FRENCH, EARLY 18TH CENTURYDepicted standing in contrapposto pose, later striated stone base the figure 12.5cm high, 32cm high overall Provenance: Property from the Phillip Lucas Collection, Spitalfields HouseComparison can be drawn with the bronze figure of a youth attributed to Barthélemy Prieur and held in the Wallace Collection. The collection notes that the pose is derived in part from Michelangelo's Dying Slave for the unfinished tomb of Pope Julius II. However a better source of inspiration was to have been found at the time in a figure of Narcissus titled Genius of Eternal Rest a Roman marble figure now held in the Louvre.Whilst this lot shares the same sinuous extenuated limbs and slight rolling contrapposto as the Wallace collection figure- the hands are not clasped to the head- but rather around a kind of naturalistic crown on his head.