Attribué à Gabriel de GRUPELLO (Grammont 1644... Lot n° 36

Crucifix en bronze doré, les bras levés, les pieds séparés. Beau perizonium. Haut.: 65 cm Comparaison possible: Paroisse St André à Düsseldorf, crucifix à côté du portail. «This masterpiece is attributed to the Flemish sculptor Gabriel Gruppello, who enjoyed great esteem even in his own time. After 1695, he worked in Düsseldorf as the «Kabinettstatuarius» of the Prince Elector Johann Wilhelm of the Palatinate. This is probably the crucifix, which Gruppello presented to the future Emperor Karl V, when he later paid a visit to the artist's workshop while in Düsseldorf in 1703. The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg is in possession of a wooden variation of this successful piece, and the tip of its loincloth, too, resem-bles «the leaf of a thistle abruptly withered in the sun» (L.L. Möller, Catalogue, Hamburg).