Italian 19th century White Carrara marble statue of courting man

A high quality and most charming Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statue, attributed to Lapini. This statue depicts a young man dressed in European pastoral attire with his...

A beautiful and extremely high quality Italian 19th century white Carrara marble statue of a young Neapolitan fisher boy signed P Bazzanti, Florence 1888. The statue titled "Fisher Boy" is sculpted out of one solid piece of white Carrara marble and is raised by a wonderfully executed rock designed base at the river's edge with finely detailed water flora, and a charming and most unique frog. The young boy is dressed in shorts, a richly sculpted flowing shirt, and a hat while kneeling on the rock with his fresh catch in his hand. He has a tied sac at his side and displays a wonderfully sculpted facial expression. Exceptional attention to detail throughout. Pietro Bazzanti (1842-1881) - Italian sculptor. Son of the renowned sculptor Nicolò Bazzanti (or Barzanti), Pietro was a central figure in the production of Florentine sculpture...

A most elegant Italian 19th century white Carrara marble. This stunning statue depicts the elegant Venus caught in a momentary pose, as if surprised in the act of emerging from the s...

This enchanting museum quality Carrara marble group is the work of Edward Russell Thaxter (born Yarmouth, ME 1857-died Naples, Italy 1881). The sculpture depicts a young girl sternly scolds her cat, who has just attacked a bird's nest. She clutches the cat to her chest and looks at it disapprovingly, while waving her hand in discipline. Meanwhile, a dead bird lies at her feet and feathers hang limply from the cat’s mouth. This scene is a prelude to the responsibilities of motherhood: the young girl who is now reprimanding her cat will have to ensure that her own children are well behaved in the future. The sculpture rests on a dark green serpentine marble pedestal. Although Edward Thaxter's life was short, he excelled in creating detailed neoclassical sculpture. Signed: E. R. Thaxter Titled: Reproof Circa 1878-1880 Measures: Height with pedestal 76" (193 cm) Height of sculpture 40" (101 cm) Another example of this marble figure is in the Smithsonian National Museum in Washington DC. Artist biography: Edward Russell Thaxter was only twenty-four years old when he died, but in his brief career as a sculptor he garnered praise for his work and was deemed an artist with a promising future. Born in Yarmouth, Maine, he is believed to have chosen to study sculpture after seeing the work of John Rogers. At the age of sixteen, Thaxter moved to Boston and studied with the portrait sculptor John D. Perry. In 1878 Thaxter left for Florence, Italy, where he took a studio and began to create the neoclassical works that won him critical attention. In 1881 he contracted typhoid fever, which left him in a weakened condition, and within the year the young sculptor died in Naples. Thaxter's untimely death was noted with genuine regret in the American press. The critic James Jackson...