Joseph Moest, Nude girl with butterfly around 1910, signed on the plinth "Moest", foundry stamp "Portmann & Co."(Hannover), bronze dark patinated, butterfly added later, nude depiction of a young woman with her hair artfully braided into a wreath, lost in thought looking at a butterfly on her hand, on flat round plinth, mounted on round, upward tapering base of Zöblitz garnet serpentine, good condition with small traces of age, h bronze ca. 30,5 cm, h total ca. 40 cm. Artist info: German sculptor (1873 Cologne to 1914 Rath-Heumar), was assistant to cathedral sculptor Peter Fuchs, studied at the Munich Academy under Syrius Eberle, co-founder of the Cologne artists' association "Stil", won several prizes and a competition for Cologne sculptors for monumental cemetery crosses in his student days, often traveled to Italy for study purposes. Source: Cf. Thieme-Becker/Vollmer, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler, Verlag Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co. KG. and Wikipedia.de.