ID 1450963 
Lot 43  | A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF THE SANDAL BINDER (SANDALBINDERIN)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000 
BY RUDOLF (RIDOLFO) SCHADOW (1786-1822), ROME, 1819
Signed and dated 'RUDOLPH SCHADOW / FEC : ROMAE 1819'; on a grey marble base
120 cm. (47 ¼ in.) high
Provenance
Private collection, Italy.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
D.C. Johnson, ‘Rudolf Schadows Sandalbinderin in Rom und Amerika,’ Forschungen und Berichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1983, XXIII, pp. 113-122.
G. Eckardt, Ridolfo Schadow: Ein Bildhauer in Rom zwischen Klassizismus und Romantik, Cologne, 2000, pp. 30-31 and 82-86.
Exhibited
Almost certainly the example presented at the ‘Nazarene’ exhibition of German artists residing in Rome, organized in April 1819 by Baron Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831) at the Palazzo Caffarelli on the Capitoline Hill, on the occasion of the visit of Emperor Francis I of Austria and his wife.
| Medium: | Marble, Stone | 
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| Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
| Medium: | Marble, Stone | 
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| Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters | 
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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