The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

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Italian or American, late 19th/ early 20th century, Statue of Christopher Columbus

Auction Closed

March 24, 08:41 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Italian or American, late 19th/ early 20th century

Statue of Christopher Columbus


marble

117cm. high

Inventory, 1926, p. 23, in the drawing room;

The work is similar in composition, though in reverse, to the famous marble statue of Columbus made for the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. 1876. That statue was commissioned by the Italian citizens in America to commemorate the centennial of the United States. It was first placed on Belmont Avenue and now stands in Marconi Piazza in the city.


The Philadelphia statue is attributed to Emmanuelle Caroni who was born in Rancate in 1826, studied first in Milan under Vincenzo Vela, and then in Florence with Lorenzo Bartolini, where he eventually opened a studio. He received the Cavaliere della Corona d'Italia, and participated in a number of international exhibitions, most notably the Paris exhibitions of 1867, where he won a gold medal for Ofelia, and 1889 with Message d’amour. and at the exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, he also exhibited The Telegram of Love and L'Africaine. Caroni's Leda and the Swan was sold in these rooms on 16 December 2020, lot 12, for £138,600.