Carrara marble bust of gentlemen, anni Bogliani Turin 1837

Carrara marble bust depicting a young nobleman.
Signed and dated Giovanni Bogliani
Turin 1837.
Giuseppe Bogliani, son of Giovanni Battista, a well-known sculptor trained in the late eighteenth century, attended the Royal Albertina Academy in Turin, where he was a student of Amedeo Lavy. His recognized artistic talent led him in 1824, while his studies were still unfinished, to receive the commission to create an Egyptian monument to be placed in the park of the castle of Govone (now lost). The following year he won the royal pension in Rome, a city in which he stayed from 1826 to 1829 and where he studied with Bertel Thorvaldsen, considered one of the greatest sculptors of the time.