A PAIR OF ITALIAN MARBLE ALLEGORICAL FIGURES

A PAIR OF ITALIAN MARBLE ALLEGORICAL FIGURES

BY RINALDO RINALDI (1793-1873)

depicting Agriculture and Seafaring, each in the form of a maiden, one holding a compass and standing on a conch shell, the other with a spade and wearing an animal pelt on a grapevine base, signed 'CAV. RINALDO RINALDI F. Roma' (2)

102.4cm high (max)

Provenance

Purchased from Anthony Outred.

A Private Collection.

Catalogue Note

Rinaldo Rinaldi was born in Padua in 1793, studied at the Venetian Academy of Arts under Pietro Zandomeneghi and later under Cavona before becoming an academician of San Luca in 1830.