Lot 83
LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN SCHOOL
STILL LIFE OF A FINE SCULPTED FEMALE HAND
Auction: 30 October 2019 at 13:00 GMT
£4,000
Description
Oil on panel
Dimensions
35.5cm x 26.cm (14in x 10.25in)
Footnote
Note: A highly refined study of a plaster cast taken, perhaps, from an original marble of Antiquity. Possibly depicting the gesture of the Immaculate Conception, this complex pose can also be found in some Roman works, where a fine silk would be laid between the thumb and second finger.