Lot 150
  • 150

Aristide Petrilli Italian, 19th Century

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Aristide Petrilli
  • WATER NYMPH
  • signed A Petrilli/Firenze/1897
  • white marble
  • height of sculpture 54 1/2 in.
  • 138.5 cm

Condition

Overall in very good condition. With some scattered and minor nicks and scratches. Slight surface dirt to crevices.
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Catalogue Note

Petrilli studied in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti.  He exhibited at the Paris 1900 Exposition Universelle and, like Caradossi and Frilli, he specialized in depicting celestial and ethereal maidens.