Lot Essay
Giovanni Angelo Cogiola was born in Turin in 1768 where he worked for several years before moving to Paris where between 1808 and 1817 he exhibited at the Salon. He died in Paris in 1831.
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BY GIOVANNI ANGELO COGIOLA, CIRCA 1820
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An Italian white marble figure of Venus
By Giovanni Angelo Cogiola, Circa 1820
Standing, holding drapery and a nest of chicks in her left hand, her right hand raised, standing against a tree stump entwined with ivy, inscribed COGIOLA at the side of the tree trunk, on a square base, on a square simulated porphyry pedestal with stepped foot
The figure: 57½ in. (146 cm.) high;
The pedestal: 26¾ in. (68 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) square
By Giovanni Angelo Cogiola, Circa 1820
Standing, holding drapery and a nest of chicks in her left hand, her right hand raised, standing against a tree stump entwined with ivy, inscribed COGIOLA at the side of the tree trunk, on a square base, on a square simulated porphyry pedestal with stepped foot
The figure: 57½ in. (146 cm.) high;
The pedestal: 26¾ in. (68 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) square
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