Sculpture – The Child With the Rooster, Adriano CECIONI (1838-1886) – Bronze

Bronze print, with double patina depicting a young standing child, holding a rooster with outstretched wings in his arms, by Adriano Cecioni (1838-1886).
The boy is presumably at a farmers' market and his expression shows that he is screaming at the top of his lungs trying to sell his rooster.
The boy is leaning against a wooden wheelbarrow, which he used to bring his rooster to market.
Signature of the sculptor “Adriano Cecioni”, hollow, on the front of the terrace.
Bronze located in “Firenze”, following the signature.
Old edition sculpture, second part of the period XIX th century. 
Very good state of preservation and patina. 

Height : 49 cm

Adriano Cecioni (1838-1886)

Adriano Cecioni, born July 26, 1836 in Florence (Tuscany), in a middle-class family, belonging to the local nobility.
Italian painter, sculptor and critic, he belongs to the Macchiaioli group.

 Adriano Cecioni began his artistic training in 1859 at the Florentine Academy , with the sculptor Aristodemo Costoli. 
 The same year , he fought alongside "Telemaco Signorini" in the Second Italian War of Independence.
In 1860 he participated in a competition to supply works of military art to the Tuscan government.
His proposal, a model for a statue of “Charles Albert of Savoy”, won a prize.

In 1863, Cecioni received a scholarship and went to Naples, where he contributed to the formation of the group of artists “Scuola di Resina”, which includes Giuseppe De Nittis, Marco de Gregorio and Federico Rossano.
A major work of this period is his sculpture "The Suicide", which he exhibited at the Florence Academy in 1867.
In 1872, Cecioni spent six months in London, where he helped to a series of caricatures for “Vanity Fair” magazine.

After his return to Italy, the sculptures he produced during the remainder of his career were mainly genre works, often humorous in nature.
In 1884, he became a drawing professor at the Istituto di Magistero Femminile.
Cecioni's art criticism activities , which began in the 1870s, occupied more and more of his time in the last years of his life.
He died of a heart attack on May 23, 1886.

His works are part of collections such as the Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti (in Florence), the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (in Rome), the Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna (in Arezzo) and the Pinacoteca di Brera (in Milan).