A.G Lanzirotti - Pair of marble busts

Antonio-Giovanni Lanzirotti (1839-1911): little faun and bacchante

Pair of Carrara marble busts on pedestals.

Signed A.G LANZIROTTI on the sides, and PETIT FAUNE/PETITE BACCHANTE on the front.

Heights 45 cm and 49 cm, widths 24 cm and 23 cm.

WIKIPEDIA LINK: https: //fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Giovanni_Lanzirotti

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Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti was born in Palermo, where he completed his studies. 

He then moved to Paris, where he studied with Joseph Michel Ange Pollet. 

His first sculptural work was L'Éducation de Bacchus, exhibited at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris.

In 1858-1859, he presented the Prefect of the Seine with a sketch of a project for an "Allegorical group in honor of S. M. l'Empereur Napoléon III, which could be placed between the gardens of the courtyard of the new Louvre (place Napoléon 4)".

In 1863, he was called to Turin, where King Victor-Emmanuel II commissioned statues of Count Verde and Duke Victor-Amédée I. 

He sent statues of La Pensierosa (The Thinker) and La Schiava greca (The Greek Slave) to Paris. 

The first now decorates a niche on the first floor of the north wing of the Cour Carrée at the Musée du Louvre. The second is in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules-Chéret, Nice.

He sculpts: Amore punito (Punished Love); La Danza (The Dance); the mausoleum of Count Tyzhieviez, and a bather, which he exhibited at the Salon. He also sculpts Il Piacere (Pleasure) and La Follia (Madness).

He also created numerous busts and portraits, including those of Cassagnac, Émile de Girardin, Doctor Armand Trousseau, Beaumarchais and King Umberto I of Italy.

In 1867, he joined Auguste Clésinger as director of the photosculpture workshops of the Société générale de photosculpture de France.

In 1880, the young sculptor Domenico Trentacoste joined him in Paris.

Lanzirotti died on February 28, 1911.