BRONZE "ARIANE RIDING A PANTHER", AFTER JOHANN HEINRICH DANNECKER

Bronze group depicting Ariadne riding a panther after a work by Johann Heinrich Dannecker. It depicts a nude young woman wearing a bun and a crown of grape leaves, as she is the wife of the wine god Dionysus. She is depicted in a calm attitude, to show "the taming of savagery by beauty". Her slender, elongated body is typical of Neoclassicism. The figures rest on a rectangular bronze base. Our print dates from the mid-19th century.

Johann Heinrich Dannecker (1758-1841) was a German artist who worked in Stuttgart for the Duke of Wuttemberg. He was greatly inspired by Antiquity. In 1803, he designed Ariadne Riding a Panther, which he completed in marble in 1814. It is now in the Liebieghaus museum in Frankfurt.

Circa: 1850

Dim: W:32cm, D:14cm, H:39cm

Condition report in good condition.