"forest Nymph With Butterfly" By Franz Rosse (1858 - 1900), Bronze, Signed & Dated 1891

The beautiful bronze figure of an allegorical forest nymph with a butterfly was executed in 1891 by the listed German sculptor Franz Rosse (1858 - Berlin - 1900). He studied in Hanau by Wiese and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (by Shaper). Works by him: Kaiser Wilhelm monument in Rathenow (1900), statue of Friedrich Wilhelm I and small plastics with allegorical figures of nudes and nymphs.

Literature: Thieme/Becker “General encyclopedia of visual artists from Antiquity to the present day”; E.Benezit "Dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers", Founder, 1999.
Inscription: signed and dated (18)91 on the ground.
Technique: bronze, brown patina, dark red-brown marble base.
Dimensions: H. 38 cm.
Condition: very good