LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with green patina

Measurements:

92.52 in. (235.00 cm.) (height)

Markings:

signed 'C.Meunier' (on the top of the base); inscribed with the foundry mark 'VERBEYST FONDEUR.BRUXELLES.' (on the back of the base)

Literature:

Nationalgalerie Erwerbungen, Berlin, 1961 (illustrated n.p.). P.K. Schuster (ed.), Die Nationalgalerie, Cologne, 2001, no. 351, (illustrated p. 304). F.C. Brader, 'Meisterwerke im Verborgenen. Die Sammlung Otto Krebs', in A. Pophanken & F. Billeter (eds.), Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Französische Kunst in deutschen Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Passagen - Deutsches Forum zur Kunstgesichte, vol. III, Berlin, 2001, p. 299. B. Maaz (ed.), Nationalgalerie Berlin, Bestandskatalog der Skulpturen, vol. II, Das XIX. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 2006, no. 1448 (illustrated p. 909).

Provenance:

Otto Krebs, Mannheim and Gut Holzdorf near Weimar, and by descent. Nationalised as part of the land reform under the Soviet Military Administration in Thuringia after 8 May 1945. Transferred as state property by the Staatliche Kunstkommission (Ministerium des Innern) to the administration of the Nationalgalerie Berlin (East) in 1952. On loan to the MTS [machine and tractor station], Isseroda, Thuringia, until 1953 when transferred back to the Nationalgalerie Berlin (East) in exchange for Rudolf Löhner's sculpture Junger Traktorist. Property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin from 1990 until restituted to the Stiftung für Krebs - und Scharlachforschung on 30 April 2008.