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| Caspar Gras Kicking Horse ca. 1630 Getty |
Bronzes, mostly small in scale, from collections at the Getty in Los Angeles. The earliest was made in 1543 and the latest in 1630. As a group, they span the century when Mannerism was shading into Baroque.
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| Alessandro Vittoria Mercury 1559-60 Getty |
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| Italian sculptor Two Sphinxes ca. 1560 Getty |
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| Willem Danielsz van Tetrode Warrior 1562-65 Getty |
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| Hans Mont Mars & Venus 1580 Getty |
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| Benedikt Wurzelbauer Neptune 16th century Getty |
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| Tiziano Aspetti Nude ca. 1600 Getty |
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| Italian sculptor Dog & Bear ca. 1600 Getty |
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| Adriaen de Vries Juggling Man ca. 1615 Getty |
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| after Gian Lorenzo Bernini Neptune 1620s Getty |
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| Giovanni Francesco Susini Abduction of Helen by Paris 1627 Getty |
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| attributed to Francesco Primaticcio Double Head ca. 1543 Getty |
The final object (an exotic oddity, celebrity-haunted, and new to the museum) has naturally attracted curatorial attention –
"This intriguing sculpture was cast from the female head of the ancient marble statue Cesi Juno (Rome, Capitoline Museum), which Michelangelo described as the most beautiful object in Rome. It may be one of the bronze casts after antique Roman statues that the French king Francis I commissioned from Primaticcio, his court artist for the château at Fontainebleau outside Paris. Double Head is depicted in a print of about 1650 above the entrance to a garden at Fontainebleau. It then passed to several famous collectors, including the 18th-century connoisseur Pierre Crozat and the 20th-century designer Yves Saint Laurent."