C. PITTALUGA | NYMPH HOLDING FLOWERS

Little biographical material on Pittaluga has been published. His Nymph, however, here in an elegant pose, belongs to a tradition of marble statuary current in fin-de-siècle Italy. The grace with which the Nymph is holding the flowers adds to the profound tenderness and serenity of the model, caught in a gentle state of contemplation.

A slightly reduced version of the present model was sold in these rooms on 10 July 2019, lot 77.

RELATED LITERATURE

A. Panzetta, Nuovo Dizionario gli scultori italiani dell’ottocento e del primo novecento, vol. 2, Borgaro, 2003, p. 697