Signed: Ces. Fantacchiotti and Fond. Galli Firenze (The Galli Brothers foundry of Florence (see below).

Cesare Fantacchiotii was the son and pupil of the Italian sculptor Odoardo Fantacchiotti. His style developed from his fathers’s restrained Neo-classicism into precise and naturalistic representations of romantic subjects. He attended the Accademy of Fine Arts in Florence and produced a wide range of genre and religious subjects as well as public figures and funerary monuments. His works included St Stephen (Protestant Church Florence), King Rama V (Bangkok, 1901), Vittorio Emanuele II (City of Meldola), Garibaldi (1886), Moliere and Savonarola (1884) and Romeo and Juliet (marble,1899, Melbourne). He held numerous exhibitions in Turin (1884), Naples (1877), London (1871 and 1888), Rome (1883), Florence (1884 and 1910) and Livorno (1886). He became a resident Professor of Sculpture at the Florence Accademy for Fine arts in 1887.

The Galli Foundry cast several bronzes during the late 19th and early 20th century including the statue of George Washington by Richard Henry Park (1832-1902) (City of Milwaukee, 1885).

Height: 38 inches (96.5 cm)

Condition: an impressive piece with fine original mid brown and gold patination.

Provenance:

Ex private collection (1991) deceased estate.

References:

Alfonso Panzetta: Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani Dell’Ottocento e del Primo Novecento [ Umberto Allemandi & C., 1993/94. Illus. Part I, Page 80, plate 337. Biog. Part II page 121]  

E. Benezit: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Desssinateurs et Graveurs [Grund, 1999]