19th-Century European Art
19th-Century European Art
Property from the Carnegie Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund
Studio of Cesare Lapini
Flora
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Carnegie Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund
Studio of Cesare Lapini
Italian 1848 – after 1890
Flora
signed Cesare Lapini Firenze and inscribed Made in Italy
marble
height: 38 in.; 96.52 cm
John. T Galey, Jr., Pennsylvania.
Cesare Lapini was one of a number of prominent sculptors working in Florence in the mid to late 19th century who specialized in marble groups of allegorical, genre and all'antica sculpture for tourists, mainly from England and America.
The present marble, with its overt femininity and delicate features, is typical of his oeuvre.