Nymph & Cupid By Cesare Lapini

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Nymph & Cupid By Cesare Lapini

Nymph & Cupid By Cesare Lapini

Dimensions: H: 49.5 in / 126 cm | W: 16.5 in / 42 cm | D: 15.5 in / 39.5 cm

PRICE: £95,000

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DESCRIPTION PROVENANCE

Carved from statuary marble, the large sculpture depicting a nymph, wrapped in in billowing shawl and floral garlands as winged Cupid glances up at her. Signed 'C. Lapini / Firenze' and dated 1893.
Italian, dated 1893

Cesare Lapini (1848-1893)

A celebrated sculptor of genre figures and groups, Cesare Lapini was born in Florence and enjoyed a successful career as a sculptor of busts and statues, especially of young women. Lapini exhibited six works at the Esposizione Generale Italiana in Turin in 1884, including 'Sorpresa', and exhibited in Rome in 1888. After his death, his successful workshop became the Galleria Lapini which was still operating in 1900, and exhibited an impressive number of statues at the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle.

Comparative Literature:

Panzetta, Alfonso. Nuovo Dizionario Degli Scultori Italiani Dell'ottocento E Del Primo Novecento : Da Antonio Canova Ad Arturo Martini. Adarte 2003, p. 513.

Provenance:

Sotheby's New York, La Belle Époque, 23 May, 1997, lot 300 (mistakenly dated 1892).
Private Collection, USA

REF No. 10442

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