Marble Sculpture: Antonio Tantardini (milan 1829-1879)- Maiden

White marble sculpture of a bust of a young girl.

SIGNED AND DATED ON THE BASE 1872

DIMENSIONS 60CM HIGH, 40CM WIDE

Small defects at the base, nose, ear, and hair bow. As per photo.

Antonio Tantardini attended the Brera Academy of Fine Arts as a pupil of Pompeo Marchesi and was later appointed its teacher. His work oscillates between realism and romanticism and ranges between portraits, religious works and genre depictions. In Milan he created the monument to Cavour in 1865, worked at the Fabbrica del Duomo and exhibited works at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna. In Turin from 1870 he was among the exhibitors at the famous Exhibition at the Promotrice di Belle Arti. A version of the 'Bagnante' is currently exhibited in the Buenos Aires Museum and a smaller one in the Pinacoteca di Brescia. Tantardini's fame also spread abroad where he took part in important exhibitions including those in Dublin, Paris and London where the sculpture we presented was photographed in 1862 at the exhibition held at the Brompton Boilers in South Kensington.