"Ariane On The Panther - Bronze - After Johann Heinrich Dannecker"
Bronze sculpture of "Ariane on the panther" with marble base, early 20th century, based on the original by Johann Heinrich Dannecker (1758-1841). He was a German artist who worked in Stuttgart for the Duke of Württemberg. He designed Ariadne riding a panther in 1803 and made it in marble in 1814. The original is now in the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt am Main. It symbolizes “the taming of savagery through beauty”. 
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