Master Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

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Property from the Estate of Alexis Gregory, sold to Benefit the Alexis Gregory Foundation

K. Berman, after designs by Johann Wilhelm Bauer (Strasbourg 1607 - Vienna 1640) German, circa 1698

pair of framed sets of reliefs with Ovid's Metamorphoses

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January 30, 08:50 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 45,000 USD

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K. Berman, after designs by Johann Wilhelm Bauer (Strasbourg 1607 - Vienna 1640)

German, circa 1698

pair of framed sets of reliefs with Ovid's Metamorphoses

wax, within rock crystal-mounted giltwood glazed frames

With 49 reliefs and needlework armorial devices, with a label on the reverse:

Confié au / Musée du Louvre / par M Maurice Savreux / 28(?) Rue Troyon / Sèvres (…) / Le 4 Octobre 1939

each framed group 17 5/8 by 25 1/4 in.; 44.7 by 64.1cm

A group of twenty-five reliefs with the identical scenes and in polychrome wax, with inscriptions below each scene as well as a date of manufacture, is in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (27.10.326). Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer was a German engraver, etcher and miniature painter and was famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's Metamorphoses.