APOLLO BELVEDERE - Italy, late 18th century
Height: 58,6 ‘’ (149 cm), Marble

EQUESTRIAN STATUETTE
Attributed to Caspar Gras (1585-1674)
circa 1650
Height: 36,5 cm (without base), bronze

Statuette of the Habsburg Ruler Archduke Ferdinand Karl (1628-1662) or Archduke Sigmund Franz (1630-1665). The horse, the body and the head of the statuette are separately casted. The archduke with locks of hair falling over his shoulders, wearing armour and insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece, his boots with spurs, his steed rearing on its back legs, all details of harness, armour and features, both of horse and rider meticulously worked, wooden pedestal.
Formerly: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, inv. 5995.

Literature: Exhibition catalogue: „Ruhm und Sinnlichkeit. Innsbrucker Bronzeguss 1500-1650“, Innsbruck 1996, p. 302 pp.
Leithe Jasper: Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 1986, p. 253 pp.

SOLD:

A Pair of Marble-Busts: emperor Josef II. & Josef II.
Giuseppe Pisani (1757 Carrara-1839 Modena)
Signed and dated 1797.
Made when Pisani was sculptor at the Austrian court.
Height: 72 cm

Giuseppe Pisani was active in Rome. In 1798 he entered the service of the house of Este in Vienna. He carved a number of tombs in the cathedral at Modena and the churches of Krems and Gran.

Literature: Benezit (Dictionary of Artists, Gründ 2006) Bd11/Seite 49: Pisani, Giuseppe Italian, Born 1757 in Carrara, died 27 December 1839 in Modena.