Antique Art Nouveau Female Carrara Marble Gilt Bronze Bust Statue Sculpture by Gustave Van Vaerenbergh 1900 Mid-Century Modern a rare & important piece

a rare & important piece of Americana

By family repute the table has always been attributed to Christian Meyer

Mabel Brady Garvan collection at Yale University (see Gerald W

to the far background are boats on the banks of the Arno river

Antique Art Nouveau Female Carrara Marble Gilt Bronze Bust Statue Sculpture by Gustave Van Vaerenbergh 1900 Mid-Century Modern a rare & important pieceA very beautiful antique Art Nouveau bronzed Carrara marble sculpture bust of a young maiden circa 1900, by Gustave Van Vaerenbergh (1871 1927). The sculpture portrays a beautiful young maiden made from Cararra marble, she is wearing a laurel wreath in her hair. She wears a bronzed bodice with leaf decoration in relief and is raised on a varigated grey & white socle base. The sculpture is signed to the rear " G. V. Vaerenbergh" and numbered "1173",