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Lot description
Ricciardo Meacci, Italian 1856-1938- 'And he gathers the prayers as he stands and they change into flowers in his hands'; watercolour and gold ink on paper, demi-lune, signed 'R MEACCI' (lower right), 31.4 x 41.5 cm. Note: The present watercolour is typical of Meacci, a Sienese painter whose work nevertheless exhibits an affinity with that of English Pre-Raphaelites, particularly Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). Meacci was certainly influenced in his approach by his teacher, Luigi Mussini (1813-1888), who himself had ties to the Purismo movement in Italy and the Nazarenes in Germany. The title of the scene may reference the 1858 poem 'Sandalphon' by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), in which the same line appears.