bust of a young man, with cap, well listed artist, 1870-1935, 7" tall, signed....Giovanni de Martino (3/13 January 1870 - 3 March 1935) was an Italian sculptor.[1] He made sentimental bronzes, often of street boys, fishermen or women.De Martino was born in Naples on 3[1] or 13 January 1870,[2]:200 and studied at the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti there,[4]:188 under Gioacchino Toma and Stanislao Lista.He spent some time in Paris, where he made small groups of figures.In 1900 he won a prize at the Salon de Paris for a bronze of a fisherman.After his return to Naples his work tended towards social realism.