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ADOLFO DRESSLER, AFTER A MODEL BY HOPFGARTEN AND JOLLAGE, ROME, 1867
Lot 314 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

ADOLFO DRESSLER, AFTER A MODEL BY HOPFGARTEN AND JOLLAGE, ROME, 1867

A BRONZE FIGURE OF 'THE DYING GAUL'

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ADOLFO DRESSLER, AFTER A MODEL BY HOPFGARTEN AND JOLLAGE, ROME, 1867
A BRONZE FIGURE OF 'THE DYING GAUL'
The base signed 'A. Dressler, Hopfgarten, Roma, 1867', on original black marble base
22 ½ in. (57.2 cm.) long, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, the figure

Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ruxton Love, Brooklyn Heights, New York, by the late 19th century, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Wilhelm Hopfgarten died in 1860, and named his employee Adolfo Dressler his sole heir. Dressler, like Hopfgarten after the death of his partner Benjamin Jollage, inherited the plaster models and finished bronzes as well as the foundry. This included the model for the present example, first recorded in an inventory taken after Jollage's death in 1837. (Chiara Teolato, Hopfgarten and Jollage Rediscovered, Rome, 2016.)