ARISTIDE PETRILLI (ITALIAN, 1868-1930)

With her flowing drapery and delicate garland of spring blooms, this towering figure on its original revolving plinth exemplifies the finest work of Aristide Petrilli's oeuvre at the turn of the 20th century. Petrilli, like his contemporaries, Caradossi and Andreini, was a virtuoso of the female form and often composed complex and technically accomplished poses, such as the present work and his celebrated group of Wrestling Bacchantes completed for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair (now at the Sunken Gardens of Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California).