Property from Marco Voena's London pied-à-terre (lots 106-131)
Raimondo Trentanove
Bust of Napoleon
Live auction begins on:
November 19, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Bid
1,600 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Raimondo Trentanove
1792 - 1832 Rome
Bust of Napoleon
signed and dated: R. Trentanove fece / Roma 1827. and entitled: NAPOLEONE
white marble
29cm., 11⅜in.
This finely carved marble bust of Napoleon is the work of Raimondo Trentanove, a successful Italian sculptor who was trained by Lorenzo Bartolini (1770-1850) in Carrara and went on to work in the studio of the greatest Neoclassical sculptor, Antonio Canova (1757-1822) in Rome.
It is interesting to note that Trentanove worked for a number of English patrons, including William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858). There is another version of the present model, dated 1824, in the United Services Club, London (Roscoe, op. cit., p. 1281).
RELATED LITERATURE
P. Boyries, De plâtre, de marbre ou de bronze. Napoléon essai d'iconographie sculptée, Paris, 2002, p. 113; A. Panzetta, Nuovo dizionario degli scultori Italiani dell'ottocento e del primo novecento, p. 911; I. Roscoe, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 1281
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