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A North German Wood Group of Nessus and Deianeira, Circa 1670
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
the nude female seated on the centaur's back trying to release herself from his clutches, on later ebonized wood base.
Catalogue Note
Compare a boxwood group of lovers in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Cologne with similarly modelled bodies, hands, feet and facial features in J. Rasmussen, Barockplastik in Norddeutshland, exh.cat., Mainz, 1977, no. 119, pp. 392 and 393.