SCULTORE NEOCLASSICO

Elisa Baciocchi (Ajaccio, 1777 - Villa Vicentina, 1820) Marble bust Inscribed Elisa in the front Flaws, scratches, minor chipping H. cm 61, W. cm 42, D. cm 24 A BUST BY A NEOCLASSICAL SCULPTOR; DEFETCS, SCRATCHES, MINOR CHIPS There are many sculptural works depicting Elisa Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, princess of Lucca and Piombino-most famous is the magnificent bust made in 1808 by Lorenzo Bartolini (Musée du Blois). Precisely from that model, perhaps influenced by the prototype (1805) by Joseph Chinard of Lyon (1756-1813), now at Villa Marlia in Lucca, several replicas were made: to mention, again from those years and again by Bartolini, the variants now in the Palazzo degli Alberti in Prato, in the Napoleonic Museum in Rome, at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence and again, that in Bologna (Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio) and in Munich. But see also, the marble by François Joseph Bosio (Principality of Monaco, 1768 - Paris, 1845), written on the verso BARTOLINI DIREXIT. BOSIO, which like ours and some of those mentioned above, bears the effigy's name on the front. Reference bibliography: A. M. Giusti, Arte e Manifattura di corte a Firenze, dal tramonto dei Medici all'Impero (1732-1815), exhibition catalog edited by, Firenze Palazzina della Meridiana May 16-November 5, 2006, Livorno 2006, p. 251, no. 169