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The Bowls Player

Berlin, Italy

The Bowls Player

The Bowls Player is an 1857 bronze statue by the Danish sculptor Georg Christian Freund. It is a modern adaptation of classical sculptures of athletes such as Polykleitos's Doryphoros and Myron's Discobolus. The plaster model for the work and the first casting from it were lost in the fire which des

troyed the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen in 1884. Three other casts are known to survive: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin - previously owned by the archaeologist Theodor Wiegand and now on long-term loan to his house in Berlin-Dahlem, where it is displayed on the terrace as it was during Wiegand's lifetime

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