AFTER PIERRE JOSEPH CHARDIGNY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ALABASTER BUSTS OF DANTE AND PETRARCH
AFTER PIERRE JOSEPH CHARDIGNY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each poet modelled wearing a laurel wreath, on waisted serpentine marble socles
15¼in. (38.8cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Chardigny was born in Aix in 1794, going on to study under Bosio and Cartellier at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1814. Towards the middle of the century he worked in England, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1842/3.

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