The lower edge posterior inscribed "©1918 / C.S. Paolo" along with foundry mark of "Roman Bronze Works N.Y."

14 x 10 3/4 x 6 in.

Private Collection, Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Cartaino S. Paolo was an internationally known sculptor and painter from Palermo, Sicily. He arrived in the United States in 1911 and maintained studios in New York and Boston. Known for realistic figural sculpture, he primarily worked in terra cotta, marble, stone, and granite. He also cast works in bronze, including busts of General Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee commissioned for the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California in 1931.

Good estate condition; verdigris to underside interior.