Venus and Cupid

Southern German, c. 1720

Box tree, sculpture group, full-round sculptures

Height: 19 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: 17 cm

Circle of Hans Leinberger (c. 1475/1480 – c. 1531)

Lower Bavaria, Landshut, circa 1520

Lime wood, reverse flattened, traces of the original polychromy, originally part of a crucifixion group

Height: 71.5 / 72.5 cm

Probably Venice, around 1600.

Bronze with beautifully preserved old patina. The

Workshop of the Niccolo Roccatagliata (Genoa around

1550 - Venice after 1636) attributed to. The

boldly striding putto holds in his hands

Flowers and fruits.

Height 85 cm, width 120 cm, height 21 cm.

Franconia, around 1775

Sandstone. One next to an overturned

Wine jug sitting Putto is accompanied by a small

Satyrn fed on grapes. The almost life-size

sculpture belonged - so is on reason

of the weather tracks - next to the

amorous characters, elegant muses or

further allegories with childlike putti to the

figural program of a lavishly equipped

rococo garden and refers to the 1775-77 by

Peter Wagner, famous depictions of children, and the

at the balustrade of the castle

Veitshöchheim.

height 97 cm, width 80 cm, depth 40 cm

Padua, around 1600

Model by Tiziano Aspetti (1559-1606). bronze casting

with remains of the original varnish patina.

Each on a natural pedestal in contrapost

standing nudes. At the feet of Venus, the

Grass sleeping cupid boy and nestled to her leg

a dolphin who sees the goddess as being from the

Foam born characterizes her upper body

she tends in the sense of the manneristic "figura

serpentinata" exaggeratedly to the right, while

her eyes are turned to the left. The god of war,

only with a helmet and one in front of his chest

knotted cloth, supports himself with his

Left on a sign with the head of Medusa,

with his right hand he reaches for the slung one

Sword.

Aspetti became a bronze foundry family from

Padua born and learned in the family business

the Technique of casting. Later he studied sculpture.

at Girolamo Campagna, the most famous

Venetian sculptor of the outgoing

16th century.

Height 42 cm.

Thieme/Becker, General encyclopedia of the visual arts

Artist, Vol. 2, pp. 190-193.

Krahn, Bronzetti veneziani: The Venetian

Renaissance small bronzes from the Bode Museum

Berlin, Cologne 2007, pp. 25-28 and 152-158.

Franconia, around 1770/80

Circumference of Johann Peter Wagner (Obertheres

1730-1809 Würzburg), sandstone.

pairwise facing each other, on natural pedestals

sitting child figures with around the

hip-laid cloths, in their hands a

Flower wreath or bouquet and grapes

and holding a garland of fruit.

Johann Peter Wagner is regarded as one of the most important

Sculptor of the Rococo in Mainfranken and

created numerous works, especially for ecclesiastical and religious

Client. After his years of wandering.

he returned to Franconia and first worked as a

as journeyman of the court sculptor Johann Wolfgang

from the Auwera, after whose death took over

Wagner was the workshop manager. Not until 1771

Wagner was officially recognized by the prince-bishop

Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim becomes court sculptor

even though he already held the position of

for 28 years. His in succession to

Ferdinand Tietz created putti and children's figures

on the balustrade of the terrace of the

of the prince-bishop's palace in Veitshöchheim

are among the most important depictions of children

of the German sculpture, they unite

the playful movements of the Rokoko skillfully

with the quieter, idealized features of classicism.

Height approx. 105 cm.

Thieme/Becker, General encyclopedia of the visual arts

Artist, vol. 35, p. 48-51.

Padua, around 1600

Attributed to Tiziano Aspetti (1565-1607). The god of war standing on a tank and armed with shield and sword. Bronze, with remains of the original lacquer patina.

This model is a very high quality, contemporary model from around 1600.

Height 47 cm.

lime tree, richly carved, with remains of the original setting

around 1700

height 130 cm

Lime wood carved,

with large remains of the original chalk ground,

Partly also remains (e.g. in the facial area) of the original polychromy,

Church model later addition

Expertise: Dr. Albrecht Miller, Ottobrunn 2011

Height: 60 cm

Simon Troger, circle of

(1693 Abfaltersbach, East Tyrol - 1768 Munich, Haidhausen)

"Two groups of figures"

Bavaria, middle of the 18th century

Walnut wood, ivory

Height: 33 cm, width: 34.5-36.5 cm, depth: 15-19 cm

Literature: "Elfenbein - Kunstwerke des Barock" Exhibition catalogue, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, K. von Berswordt-Wallrabe (ed.), Schwerin 2000, pp. 120-125, see illustrations no. 67, 68 and 69.