Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

Description Very little is known about Claudio Fucigna, but he appears to have been a commercial sculptor resident in Carrara, Italy and active in the last quarter of the 19th century. Such peices as this were popular in domestic and religious settings, as well as used in graveyards, and were imported to the United States in large numbers.

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 99]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Transcription] I. CONCEZIONE; [Transcription] On back: Claudio Fucigna al Sigr D. Angelo Marzi dona carrara 15 Juglio 1877

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902