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Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

25.51 in. (64.80 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 June-28 September 1980, nos. 558-567. J.C. Smith, German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1500-1580, Princeton, 1994, pp. 226-244. F. Scholten and M. Verber eds., , From Vulcan's Forge: Bronzes from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1450-1800, exhibition catalogue, London and Vaduz, 2006, no. 29.

Provenance:

Leopold Sartor, Vienna, 1 July 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 4 July 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 Elizabeth 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.