Guido Righetti (1875-1958) was born in Milan, and is one of Italy's interesting 'animalier' sculptors. He was a pupil of Paul Troubetzkoy, but for most of his life he worked in isolation at his estate in the Brianze region. Nevertheless, he exhibited regularly from 1913 at exhibitions in Milan, Florence, Monza and Como. In 1914 he exhibited with great success in Vienna, and in 1915 received an award for his Inzabù at the San Francisco exhibition. He included ten animalier sculptures and some drawings in the Fiorentina Primaverile of 1922. The Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan purchased several of his bronze works, a collection which was mostly dispersed during the Second World War. The present cast is a rare and amusing group, which reveals the influence of Troubetzkoy and Bugatti in the naturalistic and waxy treatment of the bronze.