Lot 83: Venezia

Larkin Goldsmith Mead (1835-1910)
Venezia
signed 'L G Mead' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
marble
22½ in. (57.2 cm.) high on a marble socle 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
Executed circa 1865-66.

W. Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, 1968, p. 323, fig. 9.7, another example illustrated.
K. Greenthal, American Figurative Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986, pp. 178-80, another example illustrated.
H. Nichols and B. Clark, A Marble Quarry: The James H. Ricau Collection of Sculpture at the Chrysler Museum of Art, New York, 1997, pp. 240-42, another example illustrated.

One of Larkin Goldsmith Mead's most well known sculptures, Venezia was sculpted during the artist's stay in Venice, Italy from 1862 until 1865. Other examples of Venezia are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; California Historical Society, San Francisco, California; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.