He loves me, he loves me not

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PASQUALE ROMANELLI (ITALIAN, 1812-1887)
He loves me, he loves me not
signed and dated 'P. Romanelli Fece F.e 1872'
marble
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Pasquale Romanelli was a pupil of Luigi Pampaloni and Lorenzo Bartolini in Florence. He subsequently became Bartolini's collaborator and continued his studio on the latter's death. Romanelli achieved renown in his own right, executing numerous public monuments in his native Italy and exhibited both in Paris and London. Historicising romantic subjects were very popular in Italian sculpture of the late 19th century and here Romanelli depicts, with typical sentimentality, the game of ‘he loves me, he loves me not’.

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