Alabaster sculpture depicting the bust of a smiling mother lovingly looking at her child who embraces her.
The work is characterized by the great expressiveness of the figures together with the extreme tenderness of the moment captured.
Signed on the back A. Frilli Firenze.
Antonio Frilli was the owner of one of the major Florentine sculptural art workshops at the turn of the two centuries.
Active as a copyist of Canova, a group is known with "The Three Graces" which bears his signature (Sotheby's London, 19th and 20th Century Sculpture, 26 November 1998. p. 60 n. 78).
Frilli was also an original sculptor with an eclectic style, oscillating from domestic sculptures - busts of mothers with babies at their breasts - to works with a clear Neo-Renaissance imprint according to an Art Nouveau taste.
Ours, in excellent condition, measures 54 cm high and 30 cm wide at the front.
Italy, Florence, end of the 19th century.
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