£1,000 - £2,000
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORG PETEL, 1593, WEILHEIM, 1634, AUGSBERG, THE GERMAN MICHELANGELO, A FINE 17TH CENTURY GILT BRONZE CORPUS CHRISTI
Head tilted to the right, eyes wide open looking up.
(h 52cm x d 10cm x w 30cm)
N.B. an almost identical carved boxwood Corpus Christi is in the collection of Julius Böhler Munich
Petel traveled extensively through Italy, France, and the Low Countries, where he’s work was heavily deeply influenced by the stylistic innovations of Giambologna. And his friends Peter Paul Rubens.and Anthony van Dyck ,Petel even created a famous bust of Rubens in 1633. van Dyck painted a portrait of Georg Petel around 1628.
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