
Sebastian Kuhn
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The model is first mentioned in Kaendler's work records in November and December 1737. In April 1743, Ehder mentions that he reworked the back of the canapé with French decorations, and in August 1743, Kaendler records that he repaired the group 'for His Majesty the King'; quoted by S.-K. Andres-Acevedo, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendler, II (2023), no. 152. An early version of the group with slightly more elaborate canapé is in the Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, acc. no. 1974.356.356; another is in the Pauls Collection, Basel (I. Menzhausen, In Porzellan verzaubert (1988), pl. 216).