A RECTANGULAR CARVED MARBLE RELIEF OF FROLICKING PUTTI

Relatively little is known about Johann Sautner, an Austrian sculptor active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is recorded in Thieme-Becker as having worked with Beyer and Hagenaur on marble figures for the park of the palace of Schonbrunn, and a signed terracotta of Prometheus and the Eagle was sold from the Lanna collection in Prague in 1909 (vol. I of the sale catalogue, no. 1927, p. 191, pl. 110). The present lot may be identical with an alabaster 'kinderbacchanal' exhibited by Sautner in the Academy of Art, Vienna.