A BRONZE FIGURE OF 'THE DYING GAUL'

Wilhelm Hopfgarten died in 1860, and named his employee Adolfo Dressler his sole heir. Dressler, like Hopfgarten after the death of his partner Benjamin Jollage, inherited the plaster models and finished bronzes as well as the foundry. This included the model for the present example, first recorded in an inventory taken after Jollage's death in 1837. (Chiara Teolato, Hopfgarten and Jollage Rediscovered, Rome, 2016.)