After Balthasar Ferdinand Moll (1717 - 1785), Austrian or Northern Italian, 19th Century
A bronze bust of Charles V (1500-1558) as Roman Emperor
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September 26, 10:06 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
After Balthasar Ferdinand Moll (1717 - 1785)
Austrian or Northern Italian, 19th Century
A small life-size bronze bust of Charles V (1500-1558) as Roman Emperor
Inscribed CARL. V. on the cartouche
Wearing a gilded laurel crown, the Emperor is draped in a wide cloak fastened at the shoulder and wears the Order of the Golden Fleece around his neck
bronze and marble
Sculpture: 21.5 cm high; 8½ in. high
Total: 25 cm high; 9⅞ in. high
David Peel, Cyril Humphris, Spring Exhibition, London 1971, n. 16
Sotheby's Paris, Important French Furniture, Sculptures and Works of Art, 4 April 2010, lot. 7
The most famous effigy of Charles V (1500–1558), Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, is the one created by the Italian sculptor and medallist Leone Leoni (1509–1590), shown in profile on medals or as a half-length bronze statue (now in the Prado Museum). The small bronze bust presented here stands out for the refinement of its chasing and its gilding. As Cyril Humphris has suggested, the inscription CARL V could point to an Austrian origin, most likely a sculptor such as Balthasar Ferdinand Moll (1717–1785), a pupil of the renowned Georg Raphael Donner, who worked at the Habsburg court in Vienna.
Related Literature
Georg-Raphael Donner 1693-1741, Cat. exp., Österreichische Galerie Wien, 1993, p. 466-469.
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