Details
WORKSHOP OF FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY (1597-1643), ROME, MID-17TH CENTURY
Executioner
bronze figure; on a naturalistic bronze plinth and a square bronze base; together with a later circular marble and gilt-bronze base
1012 in. (26.7 cm.) high; 1112 in. (29.5 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Victor Hahn collection, Berlin, by 1926; his sale, Hermann Ball, Paul Graupe, Berlin, 27 June 1932, lot 175 as 'Italian, 16-17th Century'
Art market, France, where acquired by the present owner
Literature
A. Donath, Sammlung Victor Hahn. Bildwerke in Ton, Holz und Bronze, vol. II, Berlin, 1926, p. 31, no. 51.
O. von Falke, Die Sammlung Victor Hahn, Gemälde, Skulpturen, Möbel, Bronzestatuetten, Textilen vom 15. bis. 18 Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1932, p. 58, no. 175, pl. 40.
W. Holzhausen, 'Die Bronzen Augustus des Starken in Dresden', Jahrburch des Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, Berlin, 1939, p. 173.
M. Boudon-Machuel, François du Quesnoy (1597-1643), Paris, 2005, p. 333, no. 125, ex. 2.
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