LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze, on an integrally cast naturalistic base

Measurements:

25.47 in. (64.70 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Literature:

M. Schwartz, ed., European Sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection , New York, 2008, pp. 136-137, no. 70. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: H. R. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten , Braunschweig, 1967, pp. 312-318. Augsburg, Rathaus, Welt in Umbruch - Augsburg zwischen Renaissance und Barock Band II: Rathaus , 28 Jun. - 28 Sept. 1980, nos. 558-567. J.C. Smith, German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance c. 1500-1580 , Princeton, 1994, pp. 226-244. London and Vienna, Daniel Katz Gallery and Liechtenstein Museum, From Vulcan's Forge: Bronzes from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1450-1800 , 15 Nov. - 16 Dec. 2005 and 2006, F. Scholten and M. Verber eds., no. 29

Provenance:

Leopold Sartor Collection, Vienna, July 1, 1929. Oscar Bondy, Vienna, by 1938; Confiscated by the Gestapo following the Anschluss, March 1938; Stored at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, for the “Führermuseum Linz” by July 4, 1938, (inv. no. 968); Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the salt mines at Alt Aussee, 1945 (Alt Aussee no. 87); Transferred to the Federal Monuments Office, Vienna, 1947; Restituted to Elisabeth Bondy, New York, December, 1948. Property from the Private Collection and Gallery of the Blumka Estate, Sotheby’s New York. 9-10 January, 1996, lot 50 ($156,500 incl. premium)