White marble sculpture depicting a bust of a girl.
SIGNED AND DATED AT THE BASE 1872
DIMENSIONS 60CM HEIGHT, 40CM WIDTH
Small defects at the base, nose, ear, and bow on the hair. As shown in photos.
Antonio Tantardini attended the Brera Academy as a student of Pompeo Marchesi and was later appointed as a teacher there. His work oscillates between realism and romanticism and ranges from portraits, religious works, and genre depictions. In Milan, he created the monument to Cavour in 1865, worked in the Cathedral Factory, and exhibited works at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna. In Turin, from 1870, he was among the exhibitors of the famous Exhibition at the Promoter of Fine Arts. A version of the "Bather" is currently exhibited at the Buenos Aires Museum and a smaller one in the Pinacoteca di Brescia. Tantardini's fame also reached abroad where he participated in important exhibitions, including those in Dublin, Paris, and London, where the sculpture we present was photographed in 1862 at the exhibition held at the Brompton Boilers in South Kensington.
