Boxwood carved seal depicting Hercules, Italy 18th century.
Located in Milan, IT
A Grand Tour carved boxwood seal depicting Hercules with a square iron matrix. Italy mid 18th century.
Iron
A cast depicting the head of Eleanor of Aragon by Laurana, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Over the wooden black painted base is set a cast of Eleonora D’Aragona head. Copy of the marble sculpture by Laurana. Cast for drawing teaching in Academy. Italy circa 1880.
Plaster, Wood
Art Nouveau seal, made out of silver and hard stone, France 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Art Nouveau seal made out of silver depicting mistletoe. Matrix with engraved monogram. The handle made out of hard stone. France, 1900.
Stone, Silver
Neoclassical Grand Tour Lava Seal Sculpture, Italy, Mid-19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
A neoclassical Grand Tour seal, carved and engraved in red lava, depicting the head of an Italian figure with a cap, wreaths of laurel and acanthus lea...
Lava
An academic cast depicting a roman women head, Italy 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
An academic cast. Above the plaster base, by means of a wooden support, the cast of the head of a Roman woman is set. Cast for the teaching drawing in the academy. Italy circa 1890.
Plaster
A terracotta snuff box in the form of a squatting woman. France, 1810.
Located in Milan, IT
The snuffbox is in terracotta. Made in the early 19th century, it depicts a discreetly crouching woman "going about her business". In the back there is a hole where the snuff comes o...
Terracotta
Bronze Female Nymph Art Nouveau Letter Wax Seal Stamp, France, 1900
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Late Victorian bronze female nymph Art Nouveau letter wax seal stamp unused and never monogrammed. Circa 1900.
Bronze
A Sicilian Art Nouveau Wood Sculpture of a Bust of a Young Woman
Located in Catania, Sicilia
Capture the elegance of the early 20th century with this striking Sicilian Art Nouveau wood sculpture depicting the bust of a young woman. Carved from rich, dark-toned walnut wood, t...
Wood
Vienna Bronze Art Nouveau Lady Bust Signet Antique, Austria, 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This charming early 20th-century Austrian signet is a finely detailed miniature object, engraved with initials that give the piece a distinctly personal and heraldic character. Its c...
Bronze
Early 20th C. Art Nouveau Hand-Carved Style Resin Female Bust Sculpture
Located in Honolulu, HI
An enchanting early 20th-century Art Nouveau studio artwork, this rare miniature female bust embodies the romantic idealism and fluid elegance of the movement. Originally acquired in...
Polyester
Art Nouveau Carved Wood Portrait of a Russian Maiden with Kokoshnik Headdress
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Art Nouveau Carved Wood Portrait of a Russian Maiden with Kokoshnik Headdress, Attributed to Russian School, Circa Late 19th to Early 20th Century Presenting an exquisite carved woo...
Walnut
Emmanuel Villdnis, ‘Nelly’, French Art Nouveau Patinated Bronze Bust, ca. 1890
By Emmanuel Villdnis
Located in New York, NY
DETAILS Signed and foundry mark on back. DIMENSIONS Height: 4-15/16 inches Width: 2-5/16 inches Depth: 2.25 inches ABOUT THE SCULPTURE This portrait bust is of Nelly Faner, famous burlesque dancer at the turn of the XX Century Paris. ABOUT THE SCULPTORE Emmanuel Villdnis (French, 1858 – 1914) was born to Italian parents in France, in 1858. He moved with the family to Piedmont, Italy, in March 1861; after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Known in Italy as Villani, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Albertina in Turin from 1871 to 1880 alongside master-sculptor Odoardo Tabacchi. When Villanis graduated, he exhibited his first works in cities across Italy, notably his bust ‘Alda’ in Milan, in 1881. Villanis returned to France in 1885, living and working in the Montmartre district of Paris and didn’t leave Montmartre until his death on August 28th 1914. Villanis specialised in female bronze busts...
Bronze
