Lot number 3117 - Auction 155
RELIEF: SZENERIE 'VENUS UND ORPHEUS'

CARL LUDWIG FRIEDRICH BECKER 1820 Berlin - 1900 ibid RELIEF: SCENE 'VENUS AND ORPHEUS' Stone cast, gilded wooden frame (R. 29.5 x 43 cm). Relief 18 x 32 cm, weight approx. 2.7 kg. Signed 'C. F. Becker' lower left. Decorative, finely crafted high relief with mythological depictions of Venus and Orpheus, surrounded by musicians and companions, a classical subject often referred to as a "Bacchanal" or gathering of deities. Min. bumped and dam.