Bull
Also titled Stier
c. 1590 - c. 1598
- Medium
- bronze (metal)
- Classification
- figure
- Dimensions
- height 22.1 cm x height 33.5 cm x width 33.5 cm x depth 14 cm x weight 8.3 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This bull was part of a group of bronze animals that Heinrich Julius, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1564–1613), bought for his castle garden. The animals were later incorporated into a fountain; this bull, along with five others, supported a circular basin. The fountain was dismantled, but sixteen animals have been preserved. The bull is modelled on a bronze statue by Giambologna.
