MARBLE BUST BY LUCA MADRASSIBeautiful marble sculpture of a young woman, presented on an ebonised wooden socle. Signed L. Madrassi. Luca Madrassiwas a French sculptor of Italian origin of the 19th century. Born on the 8 June 1848 in Tricesimo, Italy, and died April 7, 1919, in Paris. He began his artistic studies in Rome before studying at the cole des Beaux Arts in Paris, under the tuition of Pierre Jules Cavelier. He then joined the renown Carrier Belleuse studio. Between 1876