Friedrich der Große zu Pferde. Um 1910.
Bronze, black brown patina.
With artist's name on plinth. Edge of plinth with foundry mark 'Aktiengesellschaft H. Gladenbeck und Sohn'. 73 x 66 x 31 cm (28,7 x 25,9 x 12,2 in).
Attached: Ex. cat. Berlin 1912 and ex. cat. Münster/Saarbrücken/Hanover 1983.

LITERATURE: Ex. cat. Friedrich der Große in der Kunst. Königliche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin, 1912, p. 63, illu. in black and white on plate 104 (presumbaly different copy).
Ex. cat. Ex aere solido - Bronzen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Exhibition in the 'Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin' from inventory of state museums, Landesmuseum Münster, Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken, Kestner-Museum Hanover 1983, cat. no. 123 with illu. (presumably different copy).

The bronze is a small version of Frederick the Great's equestrian sculpture that Tuaillon made for Beuthen in Upper Silesia in 1908-1910. Today the sculpture is lost. It is similar to the equestrian sculptures of emperors Frederick III. and emperor Wilhelm II. on the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne that Tuaillon made in 1907-09. [CB].