Live Auction 2857Twenty rooms: The private collection of the late Mrs Elias-Vaes
Christie’s roundel
Lot 1220

A DUTCH BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTING QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS

CAST FROM A MODEL BY F.E. JELTSEMA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed29 April 2010

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EUR 687

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A DUTCH BRONZE FIGURE DEPICTING QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS
CAST FROM A MODEL BY F.E. JELTSEMA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
THE BASE SIGNED FE JELTSEMA 1919; ON A NERO BELGICA MARBLE BASE
41 CM. HIGH

ACQUIRED FROM: B. BINNENWEG, ROTTERDAM.

Specialist note

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS, PRINCESS OF ORANGE-NASSAU (1880-1890)
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS (1890-1948)
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS, PRINCESS OF ORANGE-NASSAU, DUCHESS OF MECKLENBURG (1948-1962)

FREDERIK (FRé) ENGEL JELTSEMA (1879-1971), SCULPTOR AND MEDAL MAKER, WHO WORKED IN CLASSICAL STYLE, IN 1902 HE WON THE PRIX DE ROME, HE ALSO MADE THE STATUE OF JOHAN DE WITT ON DE PLAATS IN THE HAGUE.