The Young Mother

Details

ANTONIO FRILLI (ITALIAN, ?-1892)
The Young Mother
signed 'A FRILLI / FIRENZE / 1877', on a verde antico rotating cylindrical base
carrara marble
52 ¾ in. (134 cm.) high, the marble
7 in. (18 cm.) high, the base

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Lot Essay

The prolific gallery run by Antonio Frilli produced a variety of commercial sculptures in alabaster and marble for the international market. His style reflects the pinnacle of fashionable taste of his time, with a propensity for sentimental family scenes, such as the present composition, female nudes, and romantic historical subjects such as Romeo and Juliet. He is first recorded as an exhibitor at the Espozione Nazionale di Roma in 1883, and he further exhibited in Glasgow in 1888 and Paris in 1889.

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