Johan Tobias Sergel(Sweden, 1740-1814)
A plaster late Gustavian bust of Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm (1756-1813) 1795.
A plaster late Gustavian bust of Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm (1756-1813) 1795.
Signed "Sergell 1795". Height 81 cm.
Provenance
Säbylund, Närke.
Literature
Sixten Strömbom (ed.), "Index över svenska porträtt 1500-1850", 1935/43, volume II, p.665 SPA 1920:2050.
Georg Göthe, Johan Tobias Sergel's sculpture, Stockholm 1921, the lot from Säbylund nr 103, pictured on page 99.
National Museum, Stockholm, Illustrated Catalog of Elder Swedish and Foreign Sculpture, Västervik 1999, page 178, compares the museum's marble exemplary from 1794, where Reuterholm has a cross on his chest, unlike the Säbylund sculpture, carrying a seraphimer grand star. He became Seraphim Knight in 1794.
Castles and mansions in Sweden, Närke, Säbylund, Allhems publishing 1969, the lot depicted page. 215.
