Lot 104: A TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN

A TERRACOTTA BUST OF A GENTLEMAN >CIRCLE OF ARTUS QUELLINUS THE ELDER (1609-1668), SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY<br>On an integral square terracotta socle and a cylindrical scagliola column; painted inventory number '21865' to reverse of bust and side of socle >24 in. (61 cm.) high; 46¼ in. (118 cm.) high, the column<br>

Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Europaische Barockplastik am Niederrhein: Grupello und seine Zeit, 4 April - 20 June 1971, no. 120. > J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1973, nos. 314-316. > Brussels, Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire, La sculpture au siècle de Rubens: dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la principauté de Liège, 15 July - 2 October 1977, ed. P. Colman, no. 254.

Sotheby's London, 7 April, 1987, lot 187, where purchased by the present owner.