BY ENRICO MIRANDOLI, AFTER LORENZO BARTOLINI, 1846

Details

A CARVED MARBLE FIGURE OF FAITH IN GOD
BY ENRICO MIRANDOLI, AFTER LORENZO BARTOLINI, 1846
Depicted kneeling with her hands clasped in her lap; on an integrally carved oval base inscribed at the reverse 'E.co; MIRANDOLI FECE DALL' ORIGINALE 1846'; on a later painted wood oval pedestal.
Minor chips to the edges of the base.
36½ in. (92.7 cm.) high
72¼ in. (183.5 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Almost certainly Francesco Giacomo Larderel, Count of Montecerboli (1789-1858).
Purchased by the family of the vendor at a sale of works of art from the Palazzo Larderel, Livorno, circa 1970.

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
M. Tinti, Lorenzo Bartolini, Rome, 1936, II, pp. 58- 60, no. LVIII.

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Lot Essay

Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850) conceived the present model of La Fiducia in Dio in 1835 at the behest of his patron the Countess Rosa Trivulzio who asked him to create a piece that would be 'un'ara domestica in memoria del defunto marito, simboleggiando quella sola speranza che puo rimanere alla vedova dopo la morte del proprio compagno' (a domestic altar in memory of her late husband, symbolising that only hope can remain to the widow after the death of her companion). It is beyond question that the Countess must have found great solace in this humbling monument to lost love and hope and, unsurprisingly, Bartolini's sublime conception was so admired that reproductions were produced during his lifetime - as the present lot sculpted by Mirandoli proves - and well after his death.

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