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Wilhelm Hopfgarten and Benjamin Ludwig Jollage

Berlin 1789 – 1860 Rome / Berlin 1781 – 1837 Rome

"Orest und Elektra“ (also "Lucius Papirius“). 1826

Bronze, chased, burnished. 48,5 × 30,3 × 14,5 cm (19 ⅛ × 11 ⅞ × 5 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wilhelm Hopfgarten and Benjamin Ludwig Jollage.

Estimate:

EUR 4,000

 

- 6,000

USD 4,480

 

- 6,720

Sold for:

5,625 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.12.2016

Information

Bronze, chased, burnished. 48,5 × 30,3 × 14,5 cm (19 ⅛ × 11 ⅞ × 5 ¾ in.).

Related literature: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny: Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500–1900, New Haven and London 1981 / Jens Gunni Busck: The Golden Tableau. Christian VIII and Thorvaldsen at Amalienborg, Copenhagen 2015 / Chiara Teolato and Alessandra Di Castro: Hopfgarten and Jollage rediscovered. Two Berlin Bronzists in Napoleonic and Restoration Rome, Rome 2016, cat. no. 2, p. 61.