Lot 92: PAOLO TRISCORNIA

PAOLO TRISCORNIA ITALIAN 1757-1833 AL CIRCO (AT THE CIRCUS) signed Paolo Triscornia di ferdo and titled AL CIRCO carved Carrara marble, raised on a revolving pedestal height of sculpture 45 in.; height of pedestal 42 1/4 in. 114.5 cm; 107.5 cm

Alfonso Panzetta, Dizionario degli Scultori italiani, vol. II, Adarte, 2003, p. 912

The Tuscan sculptor Paolo Triscornia spent most of his career in Saint Petersburg. As a result, the city holds the highest concentration of his works. The Hermitage alone holds Laocoon (1789), Cupid and Psyche, Diana and Endymion and a copy of Gian-Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne. Triscornia also worked on the sculptural program at Michàjlovskij, the residence of Peter I and carved full-scale replicas of the ancient Horse Tamers for the gates of the riding school of the Russian Imperial Guard. Triscornia's narrative marble of the Thomas Campbell's poem, Lord Ullin's Daughter, was sold Sotheby's London, November 13, 2007, lot 73.