Lot 381: A CONTINENTAL EQUESTRIAN BRONZE MODEL OF SAINT WENCESLAS

A CONTINENTAL EQUESTRIAN BRONZE MODEL OF SAINT WENCESLAS
SECOND QUARTER 20TH CENTURY, AFTER JOSEF VACLAV MYSLBEK (1848-1922)
On a stained wood plinth with applied brass plaque 'JOSEF VACLAV MYSLBEK, 1848 PRAGUE 1922 "ST.WENCESLAW"'
The bronze -- 16 in. (40.5 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34.2 cm.) wide; overall -- 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high

Myslbek studied in Prague and Vienna and became the leading Czech exponent of romantic sculpture at the turn of the century. His most famous work is the statue of Saint Wenceslas in the centre of Wenceslas Square, Prague, started in 1887 and completed after Myslbek's death in 1924.