Bronze Code: 0628
$186
Height: 2 In
Width: 8.3 In
Weight: 5.3 LBs

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Paperweight. The model circa 1866 is an absolutely exact copy of one of the most famous and replicated works of Lieberich. Unsigned (the original sculpture was also unsigned). This work is also known as the "Hunting Trophy".Liberich Nikolai Ivanovich (1828-1883) is an outstanding figure in the history of Russian art. A man of versatile education, he devoted the first half of his life to military service, at the same time independently engaged in modeling and drawing. And just a couple of years after the end of the military career of the Life Guards, Colonel N.I. Liberich became an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1865, he received an invitation from Emperor Alexander II to participate in court hunts and created a series of bronze sculptures of hunting trophies. N.I. Liberich's sculptures have been repeatedly exhibited at academic and international exhibitions, sold at exhibitions of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. The public sought to buy bronze sculptures of a fashionable sculptor.N.I. Liberich created sculptures in a special genre of gifts for dignitaries. Custom-made bronze sculptures were gifts to officials, the military, famous artists. The work of N.I. Liberich had a significant impact on the development of Russian sculpture in the last third of the XIX century. Almost all Russian sculptors of the second half of the XIX century who worked in the battle, ethnographic and animalistic genres — E. A. Lancer, A. P. Safonova, A.O. Ober, etc. — in one way or another, we have experienced the influence of his work.