A Beggar Woman : en salle — Victoria and Albert Museum

This statuette representing a beggar woman, a pair to one of a beggar man (A.11-1949) was previously thought to have been made Dresden in about 1730-1750.

It is reminiscent of Dresden ivory statuettes of beggars of the eighteenth century, many of which are in the Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden. These firgures may have had as their ultimate source the earlier engravings by Jacques Callot (1592/3-1635). Formerly such pieces used to be attributed to the Dresden artist Wilhelm Krüger (1680-1756), to whom the present statuettes of a beggar man and a beggar woman were attributed at the time of their acquisition. However there is no evidence Krüger worked in ivory. It is far more likely that the figures in the V&A were actually made in Dieppe ivories in the mid-nineteenth century.

A Beggar Woman

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À propos de la sculpture

Notice

Dans la même salle · Sculpture, Room 111, The Gilbert Bayes Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum

Sur le même thème · Beggar

Ce qu’elle montre

Au catalogue

Sources

Echoes of Amphora: Column Vessel I/20, 2020

Gladiators: Hector and Ajax (Combat), 1963

Plaque, 1937

The Lure of the Pan Pipes, 1932

The Lure of the Pan Pipes, 1932

Emmeline Pankhurst, ca. 1929

The Duchesse de Choiseul, 1908

St Elizabeth, 1902

A Blind Hurdy-gurdy Player and his Family, 1648

Beggar Seated on a Bank

Beggar man and woman behind a bank, c. 1630

Beggar seated warming his hands at a chafing dish, after 1630

Beggar in a high cap, standing and leaning on a stick, c. 1629

Beggar man and woman behind a bank, c. 1630

Beggar seated on a bank, 1630

Beggar man and woman behind a bank, c. 1630