A RECTANGULAR CARVED MARBLE RELIEF OF FROLICKING PUTTI

BY JOHANN SAUTNER (1747-1823), CIRCA 1770-90

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A RECTANGULAR CARVED MARBLE RELIEF OF FROLICKING PUTTI
BY JOHANN SAUTNER (1747-1823), CIRCA 1770-90
Signed to the bottom left corner 'I SAUTNER'; contained within a modern metal bracket; repaired breaks
15¼ x 22½ in. (38.8 x 57.2 cm.)

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H. Vollmer ed., Algemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Leipzig, 1935, 29, p. 497.

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Lot Essay

Relatively little is known about Johann Sautner, an Austrian sculptor active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is recorded in Thieme-Becker as having worked with Beyer and Hagenaur on marble figures for the park of the palace of Schonbrunn, and a signed terracotta of Prometheus and the Eagle was sold from the Lanna collection in Prague in 1909 (vol. I of the sale catalogue, no. 1927, p. 191, pl. 110). The present lot may be identical with an alabaster 'kinderbacchanal' exhibited by Sautner in the Academy of Art, Vienna.

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