BY GIOVAN BATTISTA GAMBA, CIRCA 1880

Details

An Italian marble figure of a female nude, on pedestal
By Giovan Battista Gamba, Circa 1880
Seated cross-legged on a rock, inscribed GAMBA, on later octagonal parcel-gilt and green-painted wooden pedestal decorated with foliate rosettes
The figure: 58½in. (148.5cm.) high
The pedestal: 18½in. (47cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 15 July 1993, lot 257, purchased by Lord and Lady White of Hull.
Sold Christie's New York, Property from the Collection of Lord and Lady White of Hull, 30 April 1997, lot 72.

Lot Essay

Born in 1846, Giovan Battista Gamba studied at the Academy of Brera in Milan under Vincenzo Vela. He produced decorative sculpture for various palazzi in Bergamo, Rome and Nice, and also specialised in free-standing marble sculpture. Inspired by Vela's realism in sculpture, Gamba exhibited widely in Italy during the 1870s and 1880s.

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