Mid 18th century Venetian school, attributed to Giovanni Mar - Lot 157

Mid 18th century Venetian school, attributed to Giovanni Marchiori (1696-1778) Allegories of Winter and Spring. Pair of busts in white marble. Height 80 - Width 80 cm (Winter), Height 79 - Width 65 cm (Spring) Wear and accidents. On fluted synthetic fiber columns (Height 142 cm). Provenance : - Georges Marye Collection (Paris, 1842?Paris, 1900) and Florence Léonide Charvin, dite Agar - Jean-Jacques Fernier (1931-2020), then by descent. Many thanks to Professors Daniela Gallo Philippe Sénéchal for their help in drafting this notice. Related literature: - De Royaumont, "La tragédienne Agar à Auteuil et à Passy (1871-1882)", in Bulletin de la Société historique d'Auteuil et de Passy, January 1912, pp. 210-214. - Camillo Semenzato, La Scultura venet adel Seicento e del Settecento, Alfieri, Venezia, 1966. - Matej Klemencic, "Giovanni Marchiori v Rovinju", in Acta Historiae artis Slovenica 2, 1997, pp. 97-108. - Matej Klemencic, "In partenza per lo Stato imperiale", Venezianische Bildhauer und die österreichischen Länder in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jarhunderts, in Barockbericht n°61, 2013, pp. 59 73. - Simone Guerriero, "Nuove proposte per Giovanni Marchiori (1696-1778)", in Janez Höfler (a cura di), Francesco Robba and the Venetian sculpture of the eighteenth century, Rokus, Ljubljana, 2000, pp. 125-136. - La scultura a Venezia da Sansovino a Canova, ed. Andrea Bacchi, Milano, 2000, 449. - Teresa de Lotto, "Novità su Giovanni Marchiori e sullà "Saffo" per Francesco Algarotti", in Arte Veneta Rivista di Storia dell'Arte, 2011, pp. 172-182. - C. Loisel (ed. by), Dazzling Venice. Venise, les arts et l'Europe au XVIII siècle, Réunion des Musées Nationaux 2018, Cat. 81, p. 119. - Clara Ilham Alvarez Dopico, "Une nouvelle tradition: la céramique algéroise à l'aube du XXe siècle, à propos de la Politique", in ABE Journal, 13, 2018, online October 15, 2018.