Emil Wolff. Statue "Warrior Putting on His Armour", 1832

The German sculptor Emil Wolff carved the marble statue "Warrior Putting on His Armour" in 1832. It is a large figure: according to the museum, it measures 145 × 67 × 88 cm.

Wolff (1802–1879) was born in Berlin, was a nephew of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow and from 1815 studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts. In 1822 he received a scholarship to study in Rome under Bertel Thorvaldsen, and he also died in Rome. His works include "Midas as a Judge", "Hebe and Ganymede", "Prometheus" and portrait busts of Thorvaldsen and Winckelmann.

The interior sculpture collection of Arkhangelskoye numbers 205 objects, most of them acquired by Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov. In 1816 two octagonal salons were arranged in the palace for the large canvases of Hubert Robert; the centre of such rooms was marked by sculpture, and the museum associates Wolff's "Warrior" with the Southern Salon.