19th & 20th Century Sculpture

19th & 20th Century Sculpture

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Cesare Lapini

A Boy reading and a Girl sewing

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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December 3, 12:31 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Cesare Lapini

Italian

b. 1848

A Boy reading and a Girl sewing


the boy signed and dated: C: Lapini / Firenze 1888 and entitled: CHI S'AIUTA DIO L'AIUTA

the girl signed and dated: C: Lapini / Firenze 1888 and entitled: VOLERE È POTERE  

white marble

71cm., 28in. and 69cm., 27¼in.

Cesare Lapini specialised in allegorical and genre subjects and models all'antica, which he sold with great success from his Florentine workshop to an elite global clientele.


These enchanting figures of children epitomise the taste for entertaining subjects rendered with astonishing technical skill. Entitled 'Volere e potere' - 'where there's a will there is a way' - the girl is engaged in sewing, while the boy, holding a piece of paper, represents autonomy - 'Chi s'aiuto dio l'aiuta' ('God will help those who help themselves').