Neopolitan Fisherman – Bronze Sculpture

Fonderia Giorgio Sommer 

Bronze Sculpture

Italy, Naples

Third Quarter of the 19th Century

20.5” x 13” x 12”

The Grand Tour Bronze cast as a Neapolitan Fisherman after the original excavated in 1823 at Pompeii in the Casa della Fontana piccola (House of the small fountain). The finely cast Sculpture is seated upon a rocky outcrop with a Bacchus mask fountain spout beneath him. The figure barefooted wearing a loose-fitting tunic and straw hat leans forward with his hands poised. The Grand Tour Bronze dates to the late 19th century, circa 1875, and is signed around the Bacchus fountain mask G. Sommer Napoli.