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FIGURE REPRÉSENTANT DAVID EN PIED

Lot 50
12.03.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1164477
Lot 50 | FIGURE REPRÉSENTANT DAVID EN PIED
Estimate value
€ 25 000 – 35 000
FIGURE REPRÉSENTANT DAVID EN PIED

PAR GIOVANNI BATTISTA VILLA (1832-1899), ITALIE, 1862

En marbre blanc, signé et daté "G.B. VILLA / FECE / 1862" sur la terrasse, on y joint une base ovale cannelée postérieure en bois peint crème

H.: 124 cm. (48 ¾ in.) ; L.: 60 cm. (23 2⁄3 in.)





Provenance

Vente Sotheby's, Londres, "Of Royal and noble descent", 19 janvier 2017, lot 204.



Literature

A. Panzetta, Nuovo Dizionario Degli Scultori Italiani Dell'Ottocento e del Novecento, Turin, 2003, vol. 2, p. 955.



Further details

A MARBLE FIGURE OF DAVID, SIGNED BY GIOVANNI BATTISTA VILLA (1832-1899), ITALIAN, 1862

Giovanni Battista Villa (1832-1899), born in Genoa, is best known for his funerary monuments and genre sculptures marked by a certain verism. In particular, he executed the tomb of Raffaele Pienovi (1779-1870) - a Genoese entrepreneur, broker, merchant and impresario - in the cemetery of Staglieno (Liguria), and realized religious sculptures for the Basilica of Santa Maria Immacolata in Genoa.
His full-length David, caught in the act of defending himself against Goliath, holds firmly in his left hand the weapon, his sling, that will kill the giant.
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