A GILT BRONZE AND MARBLE FIGURE OF DANTE, cast from a model by Affortunato Gory, the poet with head inclined, wearing a headress with laurel wreath and a long gown, holding up the gown in his left hand and resting his right hand on his cheek, wearing red hardstone shoes, on a square naturalistic base, signed A. Gory Paris (his right hand missing and broken away from face), late 19th early 20th Century

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细节

A GILT BRONZE AND MARBLE FIGURE OF DANTE, cast from a model by Affortunato Gory, the poet with head inclined, wearing a headress with laurel wreath and a long gown, holding up the gown in his left hand and resting his right hand on his cheek, wearing red hardstone shoes, on a square naturalistic base, signed A. Gory Paris (his right hand missing and broken away from face), late 19th early 20th Century
6¾in. (17.2cm.) wide; 25¾in. (65.4cm.) high; 7in. (17.8cm.) deep

拍品专文

Affortunato Gory, a Florentine by birth, exhibited at the Paris Salons from the early years of the twentieth century. As in this example, Gory mastered mixed medium compositions, using combinations of bronze, gilt-bronze, marble and ivory.