Live Auction 10689The Opulent Eye - 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
A LIFESIZE ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID
Lot 130

A LIFESIZE ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID

BY PROFESSEORE CESARE LAPINI, RETAILED BY GALLERY BAZZANTI, FLORENCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed11 March 2015

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GBP 27,500

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A LIFESIZE ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID
BY PROFESSEORE CESARE LAPINI, RETAILED BY GALLERY BAZZANTI, FLORENCE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The base signed 'Gallery / P. Bazzanti / Florence / Profe C Lapini '
67 ½ in. (171.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

Professeore Cesare Lapini was born in Florence in 1848 and exhibited in Rome in the 1880s and 1890s. He was celebrated as a sculptor of genre figures and groups. The present large marble group of Venus and Cupid is also signed by Pietro Bazzanti, suggesting a collaboration between the sculptors who each operated successful marble workshops in Florence.