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Victoria & Albert: Art & Love: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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    CHRISTIAN DANIEL RAUCH (1777-1857)

    Victory

    c.1851

    RCIN 41615

    At the Great Exhibition the Queen, intrigued perhaps by the play on her own name, bought both this small bronze and a life-size marble version of the same figure, one of six Victories originally made for the Valhalla at Regensburg, commissioned by King Ludwig I to honour the great men of Bavaria.

    Purchased by Queen Victoria in November 1851

    No. 85

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