Bidspirit auction | Cesare Lapini “Young Boy” Marble

Cesare Lapini “Young Boy” Marble Sculpture - Signed and dated on verso. Date: 1894 Dimensions: 19” x 11” x 9” Condition: There is wear on the pedestal from the sculpture. Light surface marks to the marble surface, but the sculpture is overall in good condition. Artist Bio: Cesare Lapini (1848–c.1893) was a 19th-century Italian sculptor based in Florence, working at the height of the city's late academic and neoclassical sculptural tradition. He specialized in carved white marble figures — children, allegorical subjects, and sentimental genre scenes — produced for an international clientele of grand tourists and Gilded Age collectors. Lapini's signed pieces typically include his Florentine studio address, reflecting the export-driven workshop culture that flourished in Tuscany throughout the period. His name appears alongside contemporaries such as Pasquale Romanelli and Giovanni Battista Lombardi within that Florentine carving milieu.