Dimensions with wooden base: 27x16x11 cm.

Comparative literature: C. Avery and A. Radcliffe (eds.),"Giambologna Sculptor to the Medici", Victoria & Albert Museum London, 5th October - 16th November 1978, n° 134;
C. Avery, "Giambologna - Sculptor to the Medici", London 1987, p. 266 n°113;
A. Darr, "Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts", Detroit 2002, I, n° 109.

An original invention by Giambologna, the subject of the "Bird Catcher" intent on hunting birds at night armed with a lantern and a stick was executed in several variations both by the artist from Douai and by his followers. This specific model has a close comparison, both in terms of general setting and in terms of casting quality, with a bronze in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (inv. A.119-1956), with respect to which, however, ours presents an opposite arrangement of the stick and of the lantern.