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Summary

Johann Wenzel Peter: Table top with a bull. (

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Artist

Creator:Pompeo Savini



Description	painter, animal painter, engraver and designer
Date of birth/death	9 September 1745	28 December 1829
Location of birth/death	Karlsbad (Baden)	Rome
Work location	Rome
Authority file	: Q4019010 VIAF: 32898669 ISNI: 0000000066816644 ULAN: 500031272 GND: 123227100 RKD: 62866

Title

Table top with a bull.

Date

circa 1788

Medium

mosaic and bronze on lime

Dimensions

90 × 89 × 72 cm (35.4 × 35 × 28.3 in)

Collection

Łazienki Palace

	Native name	Pałac na Wodzie, Pałac na Wyspie, Pałac Łazienkowski
	Location	Warsaw
	Coordinates	52° 12′ 54.43″ N, 21° 02′ 08.95″ E
	Established	1995 (Museum)
	Website	www.lazienki-krolewskie.pl
	Authority file	: Q345276 VIAF: 311231834

Object history

1788: given to Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski, Warsaw by Pope Pius VI, Rome

Notes

The tripod table was adorned with a bull against the background of a vast landscape and a rotten oak trunk with a new branch (allusions to the Stanisław Augustus' coat-of-arms and to the revival of the country under his rule).

References

Edgar Peters Bowron, Joseph J. Rishel (2000). Art in Rome in the eighteenth century. Philadelphia Museum of Art. ISBN 08-76331-36-3, p. 179

Source/Photographer

pl.pinterest.com

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