d'Aste Giuseppe (1881-1945), Group In Gilt Bronze "feast In The Village"

Group in gilded bronze composed of five little Dutch children and their mother on the way to the village festival. Naturalist base bearing the sculptor's signature. Bibliography: Anne Pingeot, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Laure de Margerie Illustrated summary catalog of sculptures, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1986

Origin : France, Paris
Period : 1910

Height : 15.74 in
Width : 20.86 in
Depth : 6.49 in

Giuseppe D'Aste (Naples, 1881-1945), Italian sculptor
Coming to Paris around 1900, he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français from 1905. He produced numerous groups and statuettes of children representing mainly popular and rural scenes, as well as animal studies and busts. One of these groups, "Peasants and Children" is in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay. Giuseppe d'Aste will be active until 1935.