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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF CUPID DISGUISED, ENTITLED 'SECRET LOVE', by Antonio Rossetti,shown seated on a tree trunk, drawing a veil across his face and wings, holding three arrows behind his back, the tree trunk with ivy and a cluster of toadstools at its foot, the ground naturalistically carved with foliage, signed and dated A. Rossetti Roma 1887, late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF CUPID DISGUISED, ENTITLED 'SECRET LOVE', by Antonio Rossetti,shown seated on a tree trunk, drawing a veil across his face and wings, holding three arrows behind his back, the tree trunk with ivy and a cluster of toadstools at its foot, the ground naturalistically carved with foliage, signed and dated A. Rossetti Roma 1887, late 19th Century
36½in. (92.7cm.) high
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
London, The Art Journal, 1870, pp. 344 & 376
Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Foreign Catalogue, 1977, nos. 4237-8

Lot Essay

Antonio Rossetti was born in 1819, he was a Roman sculptor of note both in his own country and abroad. Two of his works The Genius of Steam and The Genius of Electricity were engraved in the Art Journal of 1870, where they were highly commended. The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has two works by Rossetti, one a figure of a maiden entitled Time is Precious, and the other a 1876 version of the present figure, signed and dated and inscribed AMOR SECRETO.

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