Property from an Important English Private Collection
Guillielmus de Grof (1676-1742)
Bust of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726)
Auction Closed
July 5, 11:37 AM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property from an Important English Private Collection
Guillielmus de Grof (1676-1742)
German, Munich, circa 1716
Bust of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726)
signed: G. de Grof F.
gilt bronze, on a Louis XIV wood and brass-inlaid wood pedestal-base
the base inscribed in pen: 37/683 with an orange plastic label stamped: 37/683 an old paper label printed: HISTORISCHES MUSEUM / MÜNCHEN and inscribed in pen: 37/683 and a paper label stamped: *SAMMLUNG* H.E.B. and inscribed in pen: 76.
bust: 21cm., 8¼in.
42cm., 16½in. overall
Emma Budge, Hamburg;
Her forced sale, Berlin, Paul Graupe, Die Sammlung Frau Emma Budge, Hamburg, 27th-29th September 1937, lot 98, pl. 35;
Acquired by the Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich (inv. no. 37/683);
Restituted to the heirs of Emma Budge in 2012;
By whom sold, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 86;
Private collection, United Kingdom
Her forced sale, Berlin, Paul Graupe, Die Sammlung Frau Emma Budge, Hamburg, 27th-29th September 1937, lot 98, pl. 35;
Acquired by the Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich (inv. no. 37/683);
Restituted to the heirs of Emma Budge in 2012;
By whom sold, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 86;
Private collection, United Kingdom
H. R. Weihrauch, Die Bildwerke in Bronze und in anderen Metallen, cat. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, vol. XIII, 5, Munich, 1956, pp. 193-5, no. 234 (referenced);
P. Volk, Guillielmus de Grof (1676–1742): Studien zur Plastik am kurbayrischen Hof im 18. Jahrhundert, dissertation, Witterschlick, 1966, p. 156, no. 5a.
P. Volk, Guillielmus de Grof (1676–1742): Studien zur Plastik am kurbayrischen Hof im 18. Jahrhundert, dissertation, Witterschlick, 1966, p. 156, no. 5a.