The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Online Sale

Swiss, 19th / 20th century, after Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770 - 1844)

The Lion of Lucerne

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200 - 300 EUR

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Description

carved wood

16.5 by 46cm.; 6½ by 18⅛ in.

Sotheby's London, 7 April 1977, lot 240;

Where acquired.

After the monument in Lucerne, carved by Thorvaldsen between 1820 and 1821, commemorating the Swiss Guards who died in the service of Louis XVI during the storming of the Tuileries Palace in 1792.

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