19th century, circle of Lorenzo Bartolini, seated nymph

19th century, circle of Lorenzo Bartolini

Seated nymph

Marble, cm high. 44 x diam. 30

The work, made in marble, depicts a young woman, perhaps a nymph, gracefully seated. 

A hand is delicately raised to her face, framed by thick hair tied in a ponytail whose ends slide over her soft shoulders. 

The truth with which the figure is interpreted, both in terms of expressiveness of the face and in terms of the features of the body, allows us to direct the authorship of the work to a sculptor close to Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), 

The present one in fact finds correspondences with works by the Tuscan master such as Nymph of the Scorpion, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg and the Nymph of the Desert from a private collection not only for the similar subject, but above all for the same melancholy vein that runs through the faces of the depicted and which reaches the highest results in trust in God at Poldi Pezzoli in Milan. 

Considered the most significant exponent of Italian Purism, Bartolini in his work managed to infuse neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while drawing inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather than the influence of Antonio Canova which circumscribed his contemporaries

The object is in good condition

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