Large 19th Century Italian Marble Statue of Venus Victrix by Pietro Bazzanti

Italian white marble sculpture of the crouching Venus after the ancient Greek Hellenist period work, finely carved by the Italian master, Pietro Bazzanti. Signed P Bazzanti Florence.

Very finely hand carved 19th century Italian Pauline Bonaparte as Venus victrix alabaster sculpture after antonio canova. Measure: 16.5 inch height in...

A sensational and extremely well executed Italian mid 19th century white Carrara and Vert de Patricia marble statue of a young Neapolitan fisher maiden, signed by Pietro Bazzanti. This stunning statue is raised by a Vert de Patricia marble pedestal with a round socle on a square base supporting the column decorated with a gadrooned band at the bottom and a fluted band at the top. The statue is of a young Neapolitan fisher maiden is standing on a rocky outcrop, battered by waves lapping at her feet. She leans on a fishing pole held in one hand, while steadying herself with the other hand as she looks down into the water. She is wearing a short-sleeved striped frock with a fabric sash fashioned as a belt upon which is fastened a gourd at the back and a handkerchief tucked in at the front. She wears a lovely conical straw hat with flowers...

Pietro Bazzanti - Barzanti (Italian, 1825-1895) "After the Bath" - a very Fine and large carved white Carrara marble figure of a semi-nude young maiden standing by the sea-shore. The smiling and posing young beauty, with bare breasts and back, her right arm juxtaposed over her head, while holding a blanket over her waist with her left hand and standing barefoot by a rocky seawall and wavy shoreline. Signed 'P. Barzanti/Florence' (on reverse) and raised on a cylindrical swiveling carved verde antico solid marble pedestal. circa: Florence, 1880-1890. Pietro Bazzanti or Barzanti (Italian, 1825-1895) was a 19th Century Italian sculptor born in Florence. Together with his brother, Niccolò Bazzanti (Firenze, 1802-1869) who was also a sculptor, they both worked the sprawling Florentine studio 'Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio' a hugely successful sculpture studio, operated within the family at their gallery on Lungarno Corsini until the mid-twentieth century. The studio was a place where many talented professors and apprentice sculptors specialized in sculpting marble...