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拍品 119THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
(Lots 117-119)
(Lots 117-119)
A RUSSIAN EQUESTRIAN BRONZE GROUP OF TWO COSSACK HORSEMEN
CAST BY WOERFFEL FROM THE MODEL BY VASSILI YACOVLEVICH GRACHEV, LATE 19TH CENTURY
已結束2007年9月27日
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GBP 19,700
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Russian sculptor Vassili Yacovlevich Grachev (1831-1905) is popularly known for his portrayal of Cossack subjects, who were famed for their self-reliance and military skills. This fine bronze perfectly captures the real sense of movement and action for which his best groups are admired. The two rearing horses are clearly unnerved by an unknown object in the quagmire below and the reactions of the Cossack horsemen are wonderfully animated, with their gaze drawn in surprise to the same spot.
Founded in 1850, the Belgian firm of H. Luppens & Cie. was awarded a Médaille d'or at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle and retailed all manner of bronze objets d'art produced by both its own foundry at 15, Rue Danemark and by other manufacturers: for example the present lot was cast by the St. Petersburg foundry C. F. Woerffel.
The paper label to this lot, and those to the preceding groups by Lanceray, gives the address for the premises of H. Luppens as on the Boulevard Anspach, Brussels. Renamed in remembrance of Mayor Jules Anspach (1829-1879), prior to 1879 this main thoroughfare was called the Boulevard Central. Luppens is recorded as maintaining premises on the Boulevard Anspach until 1902 and from 1925 the firm was known as Veuve Luppens. Thus the presence of these original labels help date these bronzes to the closing decades of the 19th century.
Founded in 1850, the Belgian firm of H. Luppens & Cie. was awarded a Médaille d'or at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle and retailed all manner of bronze objets d'art produced by both its own foundry at 15, Rue Danemark and by other manufacturers: for example the present lot was cast by the St. Petersburg foundry C. F. Woerffel.
The paper label to this lot, and those to the preceding groups by Lanceray, gives the address for the premises of H. Luppens as on the Boulevard Anspach, Brussels. Renamed in remembrance of Mayor Jules Anspach (1829-1879), prior to 1879 this main thoroughfare was called the Boulevard Central. Luppens is recorded as maintaining premises on the Boulevard Anspach until 1902 and from 1925 the firm was known as Veuve Luppens. Thus the presence of these original labels help date these bronzes to the closing decades of the 19th century.