19th and 20th Century Sculpture: Including Works by Rodin’s Teacher, Carrier-Belleuse
19th and 20th Century Sculpture: Including Works by Rodin’s Teacher, Carrier-Belleuse
Cesare Lapini
A Boy reading and a Girl sewing
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July 13, 10:18 AM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Cesare Lapini
Italian
1848 - 1893
A Boy reading and a Girl sewing
the boy signed: C: LAPINI. FIRENZE and titled: CHI S'AIUTA DIO L'AIUTA
the girl signed and dated: C: LAPINI FIRENZE 1897 and titled: VOLERE E' POTERE
white marble, on veined green marble columns
figures: 71cm., 28in. and 70.5cm., 27¾in.
columns: 115.5cm., 45½in. each
Cesare Lapini specialised in allegorical and genre subjects and models all'antica, which he sold with great success from his Florentine workshop to an elite global clientele.
These enchanting figures of children epitomise the taste for entertaining subjects rendered with astonishing technical skill. Entitled 'Volere e potere' - 'where there's a will there is a way' - the girl is engaged in sewing, while the boy, holding a broken shard, represents autonomy - 'Chi s'aiuto dio l'aiuta' ('God will help those who help themselves').