A CARVED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUNG GIRL 'MÄDCHEN MIT MUSCHEL'

Johann Carl Steinhäuser, born in Bremen in 1813, joined the workshop of Christian Daniel Rauch (1777-1857) at the age of 17. During the four years he stayed with Rauch he assisted his master with the German Temple of Fame, the Walhalla at Regensburg. In 1835 Steinhauser left Bremen for Rome where he stayed until 1864. Another example of Mädchen mit Muschel was executed in 1842 and purchased a year later by Friedrich Wilhelm IV. It was placed in the Kleinen Galerie in Schloss Sanssouci. Later it moved to the Raffalesaal of the Orangerieschlosses in Park Sanssouci.
Other work by Steinhäuser is in the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe. (P. Bloch, Ethos und Pathos, die Berliner Bildhauerschule 1786-1914, Berlin, 1990, pp. 305-308)