AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, by Giovan Battista Gamba,shown naked and seated on a tall rock, her head bound in a knotted turban, her arms around her right knee, signed GAMBA, (on later octagonal parcel gilt and green wooden base, decorated with foliate corbels), late 19th Century

AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A NYMPH, by Giovan Battista Gamba,shown naked and seated on a tall rock, her head bound in a knotted turban, her arms around her right knee, signed GAMBA, (on later octagonal parcel gilt and green wooden base, decorated with foliate corbels), late 19th Century

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris, 1976, p. 600
A. Panzetta, Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento, Torino, 1989, p. 81

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Giovan Battista Gamba was born in 1846 and studied at the Academy of Brera in Milan under Vincenzo Vela. One of his earliest works was the restoration of the sculpture of the church of San Carlo in Turin. Continuing with decorative sculpture he worked on several palazzi in Bergamo, Rome and Nice. He specialised also in free standing marble sculpture, and exhibited widely in Italy. He exhibited The Grape Harvest in Naples in 1877, his Surprise in Milan in 1881 and in Rome in 1883, and regularly at the Turin Promotrice from 1884. Inspired by Vela's realism in sculpture, Gamba has created a coquettish and naturalistic image of a young maiden in the present marble. Seated in a realistic pose, with her feet firmly propped against the rocky outcrop, Gamba's girl is looking smilingly at some object that has drawn her gaze. The naturalism of the pose and expression is reminiscent of images of studio models caught unawares, and the marble figure exudes a freshness and charm rarely captured in this more laborious material.