Sculpture of St. Nicholas of Tolentino

The sculpture of St. Nicholas of Tolentino was commissioned by the Augustinians of the Lesser Town and installed on Charles Bridge in 1708. The authorship of the work has not yet been definitively established; formal analysis does not allow for a clear distinction between Hieronymus Kohl and his adopted son Johan Friedrich Kohl-Severa. The saint is dressed in the robes of his order, and accompanied by a putto holding a basket of bread on his shoulder, which St. Nicholas is giving away. The original sculpture is stored in the Gorlitz Chapel at Vyšehrad; a copy by Jan Jiřikovský, carved from Hořice sandstone, was installed on Charles Bridge in 1969.