Ernesto Bazzaro Italian, 1859-1937

In the Caravan (sometimes referred to as Flight into Egypt) was modelled in 1892 and numbers amongst just a handful of small scale works that Bazzaro executed in bronze. 

Bazzaro was one of the group of Italian sculptors influenced by the stile liberta of Giuseppe Grandi and his circle, known as the Scapigliatura. He trained at the Brera Academy under Ambrogio Borghi, who also dealt with orientalist themes (see lot 235).

RELATED LITERATURE
Alfonso Panzetta, Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell’Ottocento, Turin, 1990 (1st ed.), p. 24, fig. 11