LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Bronze, brown patina

Measurements:

25.39 in. (64.50 cm.) (height)

Literature:

RELATED LITERATURE. G. Bresc-Bautier, G. Scherf,. Bronzes français de la Renaissance au Siècle des Lumières , Paris, 2009, pp. 249-247, no. 64 et pp. 404 - 407. W. Holzhausen, 'Die Bronzen Augusts des Starken in Dresden'. , in. Jahrbuch der preussischen Kunstsammlungen , t. 60, 1939, pp. 157-186;. F. Souchal,. French Sculptors of the 17 th and 18 th centuries. The reign of Louis XIV , Oxford, 1981, pp. 320-321, no. 68;. . Cabinet de l'amateur , exh. cat. Orangerie des Tuileries, février -avril, 1956, n° 205 (for the cast in the Feray collection

Provenance:

Formerly collection of Count of Pourtalès;. with Jacques Seligmann (1858-1923), place Vendôme, Paris;. acquired from the above by Humbert de Wendel (1876-1954), in the Wendel hotel, 10 rue de Clichy, Paris;. thence by family descent to the present owner