THREE HUNTING NYMPHS OF THE GODESS DIANA

Description:

Closter Veilsdorf, circa 1770
H. 10/12/13,5 cm
From the centrepiece for the Prince of Hohenlohe. Model Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen and others, without base, without marks. Restored, reclining figure's leg and coat lost.
Jan Ahlers Collection
According to Peters 1991, p. 50, in 1770 Döll ‘joined a hunting group: ... Hunting nymph ... drawing a net, ditto reclining and resting ...’.
Literature: Newman 1977, vol. II, fig. 130