SculptureGerman17th century
Death with Left Hand Raised
1600-1650
Artists
Unidentified ArtistArtist
Dimensions
25.4 × 14 × 7.5 cm (10 × 5 1/2 × 2 15/16 in.)
Provenance
[Art dealer, Germany, sold]; [to M. Glueckselig & Son, New York, NY (?-1959), sold]; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1959. Notes: According to a letter from Frederick Glueckselig of M. Glueckselig & Son to Charles L. Kuhn at the Busch-Reisinger Museum dated April 28, 1959, Mr. Glueckselig purchased both BR59.32 and BR59.33 from a well-known German art dealer without a detailed provenance history. Mr. Glueckselig did not disclose the name of the German art dealer and merely specified that the dealer had recently passed away.
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