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Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

43.00 in. (109.22 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated on the edge of the plinth ‘ADRIANVS FRIES 1626’

Condition:

areas of oxidisation; minor repairs; the globe probably a 17th century replacement

Literature:

F. Baldinucci, Notizie (1681-1728), reprinted 1846, F. Ranalli ed., p. 580.J. Böttiger, Bronzarbeten af Adrian de Fries i Sverige, särskilda Drottningholm, Stockholm, 1884.E. B. Cahn, Adriaen de Vries und seine kirchlichen Bronzekunstwerke in Schaumberg, Rinteln, 1966.Lars Olof Larsson, Adrian de Vries, ADRIANVS FRIES HAGIENSIS BATAVVS 1545-1626, Vienna and Munich, 1967.Essen, Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Villa Hugel, Prag um 1600 - Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II, 1988.L. O. Larsson, European Bronzes 1450-1700, Stockholm, 1992, nos. 27-39, pp. 73-107.Amsterdam, Stockholm, Los Angeles, Rijksmuseum, National Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Adriaen de Vries, 1556-1626 – Imperial sculptor, 12 Dec. 1998 - 9 Jan. 1999.M. Olausson and E. Tibelius Muren, ‘From dragoon stables to sculpture museum: the Museum de Vries at Drottningholm’ in The Sculpture Journal XIV (2005), K. Eustace ed., pp. 86-89.Eliska Fucikova, ‘Adriaen de Vries, Die Prager Burg und das Waldstein-Palais’, in Studia Rudolfina, 6, 2006, Lubomir Konecny and Beket Bukovinska eds.J. Bassett, The Craftsman Revealed - Adriaen de Vries, Sculptor in Bronze, Los Angeles, 2008.

Provenance:

Probably Margarethe Leopoldine, Gräfn Colonna von Fels (b. 1667), and installed in the gardens of the family home where it is visible in situ in an engraving of the house dating from circa 1700, and thence by descent