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Title:
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Gioacchino Rossini
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Artist: |
Baron Carlo Marochetti
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This is the original plaster model of the statue of the composer Rossini, of which a bronze was erected outside the main railway station in Pesaro on 21 August 1864. It was later moved to the Palazzo Olivierir Machirelli, the seat of the town's Conservatorio Rossini. The inscription on the pedestal of the Pesaro statue states that the statue was presented to the city by Jose de Salamanca and Gustave Delahante. Both of these donors were extremely wealthy financiers, who had been involved in the raising of funds for railways. The inscription also states that Marochetti, as well as having created the statue, had also cast it. This plaster formed part of a gift to the South Kensington Museum from the Baroness Marochetti, the sculptor's widow in 1868, her husband having died at the very end of the previous year. This gift was originally a very considerable one, but almost all of it has been disposed of over the years by the museum. Only this full-length of Rossini and a head of General Washington remain, where they are kept in storage and never displayed.
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Material(s): |
Plaster
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Medium: |
Unassigned |
Finish: |
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Technique: |
Cast |
Genre: |
Unassigned
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Location: |
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, , ,
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Colours: |
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Year: |
1864 |
Height: |
1.61 metres |
Width: |
0 metres |
Depth: |
0 metres |
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Key: |
5761 |
Acc. No.: |
5761 |
Col. No.: |
5761 |
Number of views: |
2483 |
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