A GILT-BRONZE STATUETTE OF A HERALDIC LION FROM THE CIRCLE OF HUBERT GERHARD

One of the major categories of Renaissance bronze statuettes is wild and domestic animals. This article discusses a hitherto unpublished heraldic lion in gilt-bronze from the private collection of Mrs Alexander P. Rosenberg of New York City. Relates the work to the dynasty of the House of Wittelsbach, the Bavarian branch of the Holy Roman Empire, and establishes that it must have been cast in Munich around 1600 by a goldsmith-sculptor in the circle of Hubert Gerhard (c.1550-c.1621). (Quotes from original text)