Rare antique Russain bronze sculpture with Cossack and his family was executed ca. in 1880  after model by Albert -Moritz Wolf (1854 - 1923), who recieved European acknowledge for his masterfully Russian cabinett bronze figures.  For the biography of A.M.Wolf in Russian see following link: http://www.kupitkartinu.ru/painter/920/

Literature: Bronzes of the 19th Century by Pierre Kjellberg (1994) A Concise History of Bronzes by George Savage (1968)Dictionnaire des Peintres et Sculpteurs by E. Benezit (1966)Dictionnaire de Sculpteurs de l´ecole Francaise by Stanaslas Lami (1914; Thieme/Becker"Allgemeines Kuenstlerlexikon", 1999, Leipzig.

Inscription: signed on the base with the name of sculptor "M.Wolf".

Technique: bronze, brown patina.

Measurements: w. 9 1/3” x d. 4 7/8" x h. 10 2/3" (width 24 x deep 12,5 x high 27 cm).

Condition: in very good condition