Adolfo Dressler (German, 1833–1881) | A Bronze Figure of ‘The Dying Gaul’, Rome, 1867

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Description: Bronze and marble, 57.2 cm long, 30.5 cm high, the figure. The base signed 'A. Dressler, Hopfgarten, Roma, 1867', on original black marble base
Catalogue note: After a model by Hopfgarten and Jollage. Wilhelm Hopfgarten died in 1860, and named his employee Adolfo Dressler his sole heir. Dressler, like Hopfgarten after the death of his partner Benjamin Jollage, inherited the plaster models and finished bronzes as well as the foundry. This included the model for the present example, first recorded in an inventory taken after Jollage's death in 1837. (Chiara Teolato, Hopfgarten and Jollage Rediscovered, Rome, 2016.)Adolf Dressler is considered to be the founder of Silesian landscape painting. Dressler was buried in the Maria Magdalena cemetery in Wroclaw (destroyed after 1945). His works can be found in the Wroclaw National Museum and the Giant Mountain Museum (Muzeum Karkonoskie) in Hirschberg.
Provenance: Acquired from Christie’s, Sale 17467, Lot 314, Invoice no. DB19009034. Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ruxton Love, Brooklyn Heights, New York, by the late 19th century, and by descent to the present owner
Catalogue no.: 2019S0216-AD