Lot Essay
See T.H. Clarke, Marcolini Meissen Figures Engraved by Friedrich Elsasser 1785-1792, London, 1988, p. 26, fig. 146 for a discussion on this model and an engraving by Elsasser. This unusually large group was based on the celebrated Herculaneum fresco uncovered near Pompeii that consumed the attention of Jüchtzer for six months.