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    		• Greboire,
     
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    		• Gregoire,
     
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    		• Figure female -- Child
     
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    		• Animal -- Amphibian
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Italian
     
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    		• Recreation -- Sport & Play
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Rhode Island -- Bristol
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Neapolitan Fisher Girl, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Greboire, sculptor.
    Gregoire, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Neapolitan Fisher Girl, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1906.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Stone on a stone base.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 30 x 33 1/2 x 18 in.; Base: approx. 4 1/2 x 35 x 21 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On base, lower left:) GREBOIRE signed
    Description: 
    A nude girl seated with her proper left leg out and her proper right leg curled under her. Her proper left arm is back and her proper right hand is forward picking up a net in front of her. In front of the net is a frog jumping away from the girl.
    Subject: 
    Figure female -- Child -- Nude
    Animal -- Amphibian -- Frog
    Ethnic -- Italian
    Recreation -- Sport & Play -- Fishing
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Rhode Island -- Bristol
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Friends of Linden Place, 500 Hope Street, Bristol, Rhode Island 02809
    Located Linden Place, 500 Hope Street, Bristol, Rhode Island 02809
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Colt State Park, Colt Farm, On stone wall near Colt's Casino, Bristol, Rhode Island until 1965.
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain a copy of Warren, Elizabeth, "Gods and Goddesses," Friends of Linden Place News, Oct. 1990, which reports that "while abroad in 1906, Col. Colt visited a number of art centers in the Old World and before returning home, ordered copies of some of the rare old masterpieces for his Bristol estate."
    Further information can be found at the Rhode Island Historical Society Graphics Collection. IAS files contain a photocopy of a historical picture of the piece in its original location, ca. 1906. Incoming report lists signature on base as either Greboire or Gregoire, role unknown.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Rhode Island survey, 1993.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS RI000017
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