Lot 262: Pasquale Miglioretti (Italian, 1823-1881): A carved white marble genre group of two peasant children and a goat

Pasquale Miglioretti (Italian, 1823-1881): A carved white marble genre group of two peasant children and a goat

the seated girl and young boy flanking the inquisitive animal raised on its hind legs, the naturalistic oval base signed and dated to one side P. Miglioretti 1852, 114cm high, raised on an ebonised swept canted wooden plinth, 184cm high overall (2)

Footnotes

• Pasquale Miglioretti exhibited at the Royal Academy in London twice. In 1865 he exhibited 'Virgo Virginum' (cat. no 920) and 'Charlotte Corday before the death of Marat' (cat no. 841). Then in 1866 he exhibited 'The First Sorrow' (cat. no. 848).
  
  Miglioretti's status as one of the leading Italian sculptors of his generation was subsequently confirmed the following year when a version of 'Charlotte Corday before the death of Marat' was awarded a gold medal at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Two other versions of this particular work have come onto the art market in the last two decades.