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After 1815

Copy after Thorvaldsen's "Day"

Francesco Nenci

Italian, 1781 - 1850

Nenci's work is typical of the late Florentine academic tradition at the turn of the eighteenth century, with its emphasis on smoothly polished surfaces and firm contours. This elegant drawing is a copy of a famous relief roundel modeled in Rome by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, Nenci's older contemporary, which was executed in a number of marble versions.

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