Master Sculpture & Works of Art Part II

After Barthélemy Prieur (Berzieux 1536- 1611 Paris) French, circa 1700

Bathing woman

Lot Closed

January 28, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

After Barthélemy Prieur (Berzieux 1536- 1611 Paris)

French, circa 1700

Bathing woman

bronze, on ebonized base

height of bronze 7 ⅞ in.; 19.9cm.

height of base 3 ¼ in.; 8.2cm.

Please note the additional information added after the provenance: This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement with the heirs of Margarete Oppenheim and Charlotte von Wesdehlen

Margarete Oppenheim (née Eisner, formerly Reichenheim) (1857-1935), by 1898;

Involuntary estate sale of the above, Julius Böhler, Munich, May 18-22, 1936, lot 37;

Fritz Thyssen, Mülheim, acquired at the above sale for RM 3,500 and confiscated from him by the National Socialist Authorities 1939;

In storage with the Folkwang Museum Essen from February 1940 (Inventory # FM1);

Removed to the Siegen copper mine for safe keeping (inventory # S 1 96) until June 1945;

Marburg Central Collecting Point, after 1945 (inventory # 1392);

Restituted to the Thyssen family by the British administration after May 1949 and thence by descent to Federico Augusto Count Zichy-Thyssen de Zich et Vásonykeö;

Acquired from the family of the above.

This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement with the heirs of Margarete Oppenheim and Charlotte von Wesdehlen.

W. von Bode (edited and revised by James D. Draper 1980), The Bronze Statuettes of the Renaissance, Berlin, 1907, p. 106, pl. CCXI, no. 1 (illus.).

Named the sculptor to King Henry IV of France in 1591, Prieur was known for his busts of monarchs and large funerary monuments, but he also created a number of small cabinet-sized compositions depicting women in intimate scenes that were inspired by the work of Giambologna and by classical statues of Venus.