Nuremberg around 1570/1580 - A Nuremberg bronze figure of a hunting groom, around 1570/1580 - image-1

Lot 2214 Dα

Nuremberg around 1570/1580 - A Nuremberg bronze figure of a hunting groom, around 1570/1580

Auction 1153 - overview Cologne
30.05.2020, 11:00 - Fine Art
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 9.375 € (incl. premium)
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Nuremberg around 1570/1580

A Nuremberg bronze figure of a hunting groom, around 1570/1580

Cast in the round, chased, and with old patina.. Depicted is a standing bearded man facing left and blowing into a hunting horn. He is dressed in a doublet with puffed sleeves and trousers and carries a bag and a hunting knife hanging from a strap over his shoulder. The work would have originally formed part of a table fountain and can be attributed to a master employed in the foundry of Georg Labenwolf in Nuremberg.
The spear replaced. Very minor wear. Loosely mounted on an associated mortar converted into a base. Height 24.5 cm (without spear and base)..

Provenance

Collection of Val. Mayring, Nuremberg (1952). - The Daguerre Collection, Paris. - Collection of Bruno de la Laroussilhe, Paris. - German private collection.

Literature

Exhib. cat.: Aufgang der Neuzeit. Deutsche Kunst und Kultur 1530-1650, Nuremberg 1952 (exhibition in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg), p. 50, cat. no. H 33. - Klaus Pechstein: Nürnberger Brunnenfiguren der Renaissance, Hamburg/Berlin 1969, p. 27, pl. 7.

Exhibitions

Nuremberg 1952 (see lit.)