Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
AN ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MARCUS AURELIUS
Lot 326 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PIRANESEUM

AN ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MARCUS AURELIUS

ATTRIBUTED TO WILHELM HOPFGARTEN AND BENJAMIN JOLLAGE, ROME, CIRCA 1830

Closed23 October 2018

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AN ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MARCUS AURELIUS
ATTRIBUTED TO WILHELM HOPFGARTEN AND BENJAMIN JOLLAGE, ROME, CIRCA 1830
After the Roman antique currently in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, depicted on horseback with one hand stretched in front of him and the other at his side with his palm turned up, on a rectangular pedestal with dedication inscriptions on either side
23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) high, 11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm.) wide, 5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This large, early 19th century replica, including the Michelangelo designed base, was cast by Roman founders Wilhelm Hopfgarten and Benjamin Jollage. After Jollage’s death in 1837, identical versions of this model were signed by Hopfgarten alone and, later, by Hopfgarten and various partners. That this model is unsigned suggests it was cast in the earlier 1830s.

For more information on the Hopfgarten and Jollage firm see: Chiara Teolato, Hopfgarten and Jollage Rediscovered: Two Berlin Bronzists in Napoleonic and Restoration Rome, 2016.