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Pio Fedi Abraham Lincoln White Marble Bust 1865

Pio Fedi (Italian, 1816 - 1892) President Abraham Lincoln Life Size White Marble Bust 1865

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery and a political leader in the western states, he won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.

Fedi studied in Rome and Florence under some of the most prominent sculptors of the post-Canova generation. He is well known for his terracotta model of The Rape of Polyxena (combines Virgil's and Euripedes's versions of the story), and many of his sculptures are still on display throughout Italy.

A beautiful and remarkably rare white carrara marble bust of President Lincoln, sculpted by the famous Italian artist Pio Fedi (1816-1892). Sculpted in 1865 as Europe mourned the assassinated president, and concurrent with Fedi's famous marble sculpture, Pirro che rapisce Polissena. Verso signed "Pio Fedi faceva in Firenza nel - 1865." A rather unique three-dimensional representation of Lincoln, as Volk's life mask is usually the piece we see reproduced today. An extremely rare European Lincoln sculpture.

Condition Report: Excellent

Size: 29 in. high with base (73.7 cm.)

Provenance: Gary Hendershott Museum Consultants

Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000

Excellent

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