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A bronze figure: Svyatoslav on the way to Tsar'gradcast by Shtange from the model by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886), image 1
A bronze figure: Svyatoslav on the way to Tsar'gradcast by Shtange from the model by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886), image 2
A bronze figure: Svyatoslav on the way to Tsar'gradcast by Shtange from the model by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886), image 3
A bronze figure: Svyatoslav on the way to Tsar'gradcast by Shtange from the model by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886), image 4
A bronze figure: Svyatoslav on the way to Tsar'gradcast by Shtange from the model by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886), image 5
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A bronze figure: Svyatoslav on the way to Tsar'grad
cast by Shtange from the model by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886),

27 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A bronze figure: Svyatoslav on the way to Tsar'grad

cast by Shtange from the model by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848-1886),
on a rectangular naturalistic base, cast as Prince Svyatoslav on horseback, gesturing with his sword to rally his troops, the steed tense and wind-blown, inscribed in Cyrillic 'OTL. N. SHTANGE,' further inscribed in 'E. LANCERAY,' the front of the base with a plaque inscribed in Russian 'We would rather fall in battle than bring shame on Russia's lands/ Svyatoslav, on the road to Tsar'grad'
bronze
length: 52 1/2cm (20in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE
Acquired by a New York City collector, early 20th century
Thence by descent

LITERATURE
Another cast is illustrated in the following:
E.A. Lanser, Niva, 1886, no. 16, p. 418
L.P. Shaposhnikova, Skulptura XVIII-nachalo XX veka, Leningrad, 1988, p. 94, nos. 660-662
I.M. Shmidt, Russkaia skulptura vtoroi poloviny XIX-nachala XX veka, Moscow, 1989, pp. 49, 52-53
Gosudarstvennaia Tretiakovskaia galereia, katalog sobraniia: Skulptura XVII-XIX vekov, Moscow, 2000, pp. 58, 192-193
N.R. Levinson and L.N. Goncharova, Russkaia khudozhestvennaia bronza, Moscow, 2001, pp. 113, 189, no.53
G.W. Subdbury, Evgueni Alexandrovitch Lanceray, 1848-1886, Lausanne, 2006, pp. 82-83, 165-166

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