A GERMAN BRONZE GROUP OF A BOY PLAYING WITH A CAT, cast after a model by L. Tuaillon, the nude boy seated on an altar pedestal with a goatskin, holding the cat in his right hand with a food bowl in his other hand, the altar pedestal of tapering triangular form and with rams masks to the top corners, the panelled sides raised with dancing girls on winged sphinx monopodiæ and serpentine-shaped base, signed L.TUAILLON

A GERMAN BRONZE GROUP OF A BOY PLAYING WITH A CAT, cast after a model by L. Tuaillon, the nude boy seated on an altar pedestal with a goatskin, holding the cat in his right hand with a food bowl in his other hand, the altar pedestal of tapering triangular form and with rams masks to the top corners, the panelled sides raised with dancing girls on winged sphinx monopodiæ and serpentine-shaped base, signed L.TUAILLON

细节

拍品专文

Louis Tuaillon (d. 1919) was born in Berlin in 1862; it is known that he studied at the Berlin Academy under Schaper from 1879. In 1882 he joined the atelier of Reinhold Begas, leaving for Rome in 1885 where he stayed until 1903.