'Brunhilde': a large terracotta bust from Wagner's Ring Cycle by Louis Robert Carrier-Belleuse for Goldscheider, circa 1896

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

'Brunhilde': a large terracotta bust from Wagner's Ring Cycle by Louis Robert Carrier-Belleuse for Goldscheider
72cm. high

model no. 1772, wearing an eagle headdress

Literature

Model is also referred to as 'Brunhaut' in Ora Pinhas, Goldscheider, A Catalogue of Selected Models, Somerset, 2006, p.39.

Catalogue Note

The figure is taken from Wagner's Ring Cylce which is based mostly on the German Nieberlungenlied and the Norse saga 'Edda'. Brunhilde, the queen of Isenland (Iceland), plays the main role in the fight for a ring which grants the power of the world.