A Volkstedt group of a fisherman and companion

CIRCA 1775

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A Volkstedt group of a fisherman and companion
Circa 1775
He standing in pink jacket and white shirt and breeches holding a fish and with a net, she seated at his side, holding a gaffer and in puce bodice, yellow skirt and iron-red flowered drapery, a basket of fish at her side flanked by trees and before rockwork on a green oval mound base (damage to trees and foliage, tail of his fish lacking)
8¼in. (21cm.) high

Provenance

Collection P. Accorsi, Milan.

Lot Essay

Taken from an engraving by Amiconi, see Siegfried Ducret, op. cit. (1973), p. 129, no. 173.

Cf. Helmut Scherf, op. cit., no. 39 for a group of similar style but of a different subject.

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