





Lot 225
An Italian white marble sculpture entitled 'Le Printemps de la Vie' by Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti, dated 1876
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £27,500 inc. premium
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An Italian white marble sculpture entitled 'Le Printemps de la Vie' by Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti, dated 1876
the scantily clad young lady wearing drapery, holding a bronze butterfly or moth in her clasped hands, a child to her side, inscribed to the front Le Printemps de la Vie, signed to the side A.G.Lanzirotti and Original 1876, raised on a stepped circular Rouge Griotte marble base, on a pink marble pedestal with rounded corners, the white marble group: 37cm in diameter, 86cm high (14 1/2in in diameter, 33 1/2in high); the pedestal: 33cm wide, 33cm deep, 99.5cm high (12 1/2in wide, 12 1/2in deep, 39in high). (2)
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Provenance:
Bought in Paris circa 1880 by the dukes of Pinohermoso, VIII Earls of Villaleal, & II Earls of Velle. Later the sculpture went to Madrid to the Pinohermoso Palace (also knonw as Masques of Villafranca Palace), today the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain.