Furniture

Carrara marble representing an elegant, very beautiful sculpture by A. Frilli, 19th century, Napoleon III period. Measures: H: 58 cm, W: 39 cm, D: 22 cm.

Beautiful bust of a beautiful child in white Carrara marble signed A. Frilli important Italian lorentine sculptor active between the late 1800s and earl...

After a design by Antonio Canova. The sculpture of white marble, on a revolving serpentine marble base. Signed: A. FRILLI / FIRENZE. Sculpture height 173cm, width 116cm, depth 50cm, base height 87.5cm, width 98cm. This marble replicates the central group from Venus and the Graces Dancing in the Presence of Mars by Antonio Canova. The great neo-classical sculptor produced this composition in tempera on paper and in sculptural relief, long before the idea for his famous sculpture of The Three Graces was presented to him by the Empress Josephine in 1812. Canova conceived the image between 1794 and 1799 and it is not known whether the painting or the relief was the primary version. Both are in the collections at Possagno and depict the same composition, showing the three daughters of Zeus and Euryonome: Euphrosyne, Aglaia and Thalia, dancing with Venus before Mars. Aglaia plays music on her lyre, to which all four women dance on points. Her two sisters delicately balance a crown of flowers above Venus’s head...