Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Recently Added 75" diameter X 2" tall

75" diameter X 2" tall

A very handsome Impressionist portrait of a youthful lady in Edwardian dress

and the use of colors by Paul Cézanne

Fernand Léger (1881-1955)Femme sur fond jaune (Woman Against Yellow Background)

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Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Recently Added 75" diameter X 2" tallA good antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze and marble bust of Dante Alighieri, circa 1880. The bronze is most likely Florentine and modeled as the 13th century Italian Poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri (1265 1321), the writer of one of literatures most important works, "The Divine Comedy". The bronze was created by the lost wax method and sits on the original and substantial variegated marble plinth. Condition is very good. Mounted: 16" tall