Jean-Baptiste Greuze – Reclining River God – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337246
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This beautifully crafted figure is constructed from 16 separate pieces of wood (14 of which are extant) attached with dowels, mortise and tenons, adhesive, and plaster. Starting at the top, the sections are as follows: crown; head, torso and right leg; left leg; wedge between left leg and body; right arm; left arm; left forearm; right forefoot; left forefoot; wedge between fore and back left foot; front kilt section; back kilt section; beard (now missing); crook in left hand; scepter? (now missing) in right hand; and base
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From the Passion of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Lolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Ebreichsdorf (1843-73) ; Count Joseph Arco-Zinneberg, Ebreichsdorf (1873-1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers, London, Paris and New York] ; Mrs
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