A PAIR OF ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL STYLE CAST IRON ALLEGORICAL FIGURES OF THE TEMPERAMENTS, MELANCHOLY AND SANGUINE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, cast iron figures of a male personification of the Melancholic humor clutching a work cloth, modeled as a bearded Gaul, he is lean with defined muscles despite apparent age, he wears belts and a drape, his sturdiness backed by a ram and monkey, and he is paired with the female personification of the Sanguine humor, she wears a flower crown garland at her head, she holds a scroll as billowing drapes wave at her back, a festoon of flowers on her hip, and at her feet marshy fronds. Height: 66" Width: 20" Depth: 14"

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