Tarquin and Lucretia, late 17th century, possibly French, Bronze, with red-brown lacquer patina, Height (with base): 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm), Sculpture-Bronze, After a composition by Hubert Gerhard (Netherlandish, 1540/50–1621, active Germany), The design is a compositional outgrowth of Hubert Gerhard’s Mars, Venus, and Cupid. His large bronze group with that subject, cast in 1584–85 as the centerpiece for a fountain at the Fugger castle, Kirchheim, is now in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, and a fine reduction, with modifications, is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Tarquin, Lucretia, late 17th century, French, Bronze, red-brown lacquer patina, Height, base, 22 1/4, 56.5 cm, Sculpture-Bronze, After a composition by Hubert Gerhard, Netherlandish, 1540/50–1621, active Germany, design, compositional outgrowth, Hubert, Mars, Venus, Cupid, large bronze, group, subject, cast, 1584–85, centerpiece, fountain, Fugger castle, Kirchheim, now, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, fine reduction, modifications, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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