Live Auction 1161Important Russian Art
A BRONZE MODEL 'DEPARTURE OF A TROIKA'
Lot 346 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION PART II

A BRONZE MODEL 'DEPARTURE OF A TROIKA'

CAST BY CHOPIN AND BERTHAULT AFTER THE MODEL BY EVGENII LANCERAY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed25 November 2013

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A BRONZE MODEL 'DEPARTURE OF A TROIKA'
CAST BY CHOPIN AND BERTHAULT AFTER THE MODEL BY EVGENII LANCERAY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
On an oblong naturalistic base, cast as two men and a child in a troika, the horses startled by two dogs in their path, signed and dated on base in Cyrillic 'MADE [BY] E: LANCERE 1873.' and with Cyrillic foundry marks 'F. CHOPIN' and 'CAS[T BY]. K. BERTO 1873'
16½ in. (41.9 cm.) wide

Specialist note

For the original wax model, see L.A. Dementieva, Album of Models by the Sculptor Eugene Lanceray, Moscow, 2011, pp. 72-73, 315-316, no. 21.