AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUNG GIRL ENTITLED 'BLIND MANS BUFF', by Francesca Barzaghi, standing with long plaited hair, her eyes blind-folded and with drapery falling from her right arm and waist, advancing carefully, her arms outstretched and guiding her, on a circular stepped naturalistic base carved with flowers and signed FRAN. BARZAGHI Milano 1874 and inscribed to the front with the title MOSCA CIECA (the base with two brass rotating knobs, both hands restored, chips), circa 1874

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUNG GIRL ENTITLED 'BLIND MANS BUFF', by Francesca Barzaghi, standing with long plaited hair, her eyes blind-folded and with drapery falling from her right arm and waist, advancing carefully, her arms outstretched and guiding her, on a circular stepped naturalistic base carved with flowers and signed FRAN. BARZAGHI Milano 1874 and inscribed to the front with the title MOSCA CIECA (the base with two brass rotating knobs, both hands restored, chips), circa 1874

46½in. (118cm.) high; 19in. (48.3cm.) diameter at base

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Francesco Barzaghi (1839-1892) was born in Milan where he studied at the Accademia di Brera under Benedetto Cacciatori, Giovanni Strazza and Vincenzo Vela. Between 1863 and 1867 he worked on Milan cathedral, producing several sculptures for it. He received many commisssions for public monuments but his reputation is above all based on his white marble female figures such as his Dea di Fiori which was bought the King Vittorio Emanuele II and is now in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan and the present figure.

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