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Johann Gottfried Schadow: Bust 'Luise and Friederike', artificial marble

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An unusual double wedding took place in 1793. The 18-year-old Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz married the Crown Prince of Prussia, Frederick William III, and the 16-year-old Friederike married his younger brother Louis. The occasion for Johann Gottfried Schadow to create this graceful sculpture of the two sisters. Original: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, 1797, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand. Total height 19.5 cm, width 23 cm, plinth size approx. 17 x 2 x 11 cm (W/H/D).
Artist: Johann Gottfried Schadow