Pietro Bazzanti, Italian (1825-1895) A white marble figure of a young fisherboy Giovane Pescatore
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Pietro Bazzanti, Italian (1825-1895)
A white marble figure of a young fisherboy Giovane Pescatore
the young boy holding a rod in his right hand and a small fish in his left, raised on a rocky naturalistic base, signed to the back P. Bazzanti/ Florence, 109cm high, (43" high).
Sold for £13,750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Pietro Bazzanti specialised in allegorical and genre subjects as well as copies of Antique and Renaissance sculpture. Regarded as one of the most talented sculptors of his day, his studio in Florence became a centre for other important sculptors such as Ferdinando Vichi, Cesare Lapini and Guglielmo Pugi. Many of these sculptor's works are inscribed Galleria Bazzanti.

    Another example of this figure by Bazzanti was sold at Sotheby's London, 15 November 2005, lot 73 for £25,200.

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