Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Drawings & Prints Departmental Council of Seine-Maritime

Departmental Council of Seine-Maritime

Giovanni "Gio" Ponti was an Italian architect

A rare opportunity to acquire an original painting plus on the verso

He created mainly genre images in the style of Dutch painting of the 17th and 18th

Mayor of Pont-de-Beauvoisin

Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Drawings & Prints Departmental Council of Seine-MaritimeSOLD An exquisite large antique 19th century Italian Neoclassical Grand Tour Carrara marble statue of Psyche, by Oreste Ferrari (1823 1880), signed and dated, Rome, 1880. The sculpture depicts a classically posed, beautiful, nude winged female figure, sitting in repose against a palm tree. She has a beautiful face and contemplatively stares into the foreground, her hair tresses cascade across her wings. She sits on a rocky outcrop, with one leg gently