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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE GROUP OF ESMERALDA AND THE GOAT

已結束1995年10月19日

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE GROUP OF ESMERALDA AND THE GOAT
By Antonio Rossetti, dated 1854

The gypsy woman nude but for drapery falling from her waist, the young goat resting on her knee as she teaches it to read, on a circular base inscribed ANT. ROSETTI, ROMA, 1854 and on a grey and white marble revolving pedestal, the overhanging edge above egg-and-dart and dentil carving, the cylindrical column inset with four hexagonal relief panels carved with scenes depicting the purchase and transportation of slave-girls, between foliate and ribbon-tied tambourines, on a foliate-carved base
the figure: 37¾in. (95.8cm.) high
the pedestal: 30in. (76.2cm.) diameter; 33¾in. (85.7cm.) high

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Born in 1819 in Milan, Antonio Rossetti worked for the most part in Rome, where his work was much admired by both Italians and foreign visitors to the city.

The present allegorical group depicts Esmeralda, the gypsy-girl heroine from Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, teaching her companion goat to read. The pedestal she sits on is inset with four relief panels depicting the purchase, transportation and liberation of slave-girls. This group ia a companion piece to Rossetti's Nubian Slave carved at approximately the same time and with an identical pedestal, a version of which may now be found in the Botanical Gardens of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow.