LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 1
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 2
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 3
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 4
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 5
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 6
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 7
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 8
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 9
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 10
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) - photo 11

LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862)

Lot 102
20.03.2024 15:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 3 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1173027
Lot 102 | LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862)
Estimate value
€ 3 000 – 5 000
LA MORT DE L’ÉLÈVE DANS LES BRAS DE SON MAÎTRE, D’APRÈS LA BALLADE DE LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862)

FRANCE, XIXe SIÈCLE

terre cuite patinée, portant l’inscription incisée sur la base ‘La mort de l'élève dans les bras de son maître’ ; manques et restaurations

H. 57 cm. (22 ½ in.)





Literature

Bibliographie comparative :

A. Lefaivre, ‘Uhland, sa vie et ses œuvres’, in Revue contemporaine, Paris, 13e année, 2e série, tome 40, 1864, p. 573.



Further details

A TERRACOTTA DEPICTING THE DEATH OF THE STUDENT IN THE ARMS OF HIS MASTER, AFTER THE BALLAD BY LUDWIG UHLAND, FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY

This large terracotta illustrates a subject rarely represented in sculpture, drawn from The Ministrel’s Curse (Des Sängers Fluch), a dramatic ballad written by the German poet Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862). The old minstrel, or bard, and a young singer go before the king and his wife surrounded by courtiers. There ‘the old man struck his harp [...], then the pure voice of the young man’ enchanted the assembly until the king thought that the words of the younger man were seducing the queen. ‘Irritated [...] he drew his sword and plunged it into the heart of the young man’. The base of the terracotta repeats the poet’s words (‘the death of the student in his master’s arms’). Whilst in sculpture, the subject is rare; among the few paintings to depict the theme is one by Philipp von Foltz from 1837 at the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen.
Uhland, a member of the Swabian circle in Stuttgart and was politically engaged in Germany’s unification, wrote this ballad in 1814 and many people saw in the features of the tyrannical king the figure of Napoleon. Some also saw the old bard and the young man as personifications of the oppressed press or the legislature.
Applied technique:Pottery
Medium:Ceramic, Terracotta
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures, Statuettes
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