Bust of a Woman
Artist
Federico Gaetano Villa
(Italian, 1835 – 1907)
Date1875
MediumMarble
Dimensions28 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 12 in. (72.4 × 47 × 30.5 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN5369
Federico Gaetano Villa was an Italian sculptor best known for his portrait busts and larger-scale sculpture groups. He showed his works at the most important international exhibitions of the day, including the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876 and the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1878, where he found a ready audience of bourgeois buyers, some of them American.
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 21, Wall East
19th century
Michelangelo Buonarroti
