Lot Essay
Born at Podoli, Poland, in 1825, Viktor von Brodzki spent the greater part of his life working in Rome, dying there in 1904.
A similar sleeping Cupid on dolphin pedestal by Brodzki, formerly in the collection of the Tsars, may be found at Tsarskoye Selò, Pushkin, Russia. The present example, possibly a pendant to the latter, formerly belonged to the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaievna (d. 1892). It is probable that it was given to the Duchess as a present either by her father, Tsar Nicholas I, or her brother, the ill-fated Tsar Alexander I.
A similar sleeping Cupid on dolphin pedestal by Brodzki, formerly in the collection of the Tsars, may be found at Tsarskoye Selò, Pushkin, Russia. The present example, possibly a pendant to the latter, formerly belonged to the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaievna (d. 1892). It is probable that it was given to the Duchess as a present either by her father, Tsar Nicholas I, or her brother, the ill-fated Tsar Alexander I.