A Secrétaire by Theodor Commer with Panels Containing Wax Figures by Caspar Bernhard Hardy
Info
cm 21,5 x 28 / 136 pagine e un folder / illustrato / testo inglese e italiano
Editore
Walter Padovani, Milano, 2016
Taking his cue from the collecting history of this secrétaire with its astonishing collection of wax figures, Alvar González-Palacios highlights some of the lesser-known aspects of the career and personality of Caspar Bernhard Hardy (Cologne, 1726 – 1819), and discusses a previously unpublished marble portrait of Goethe, Hardy’s only signed and dated work known to date.
Il libro è corredato da un'ampia documentazione fotografica che permette di entrare in questo microcosmo di ceroplastiche esplorandone i minimi dettagli. Fotografie di Arrigo Coppitz.
The secrétaire will be shown by Kunstkammer Georg Laue on stand 204 at the TEFAF exhibition in Maastricht from 11 to 20 March 2016.
