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"Luigi Pampaloni, now desired in Florence by those who prize the arts, created that praying boy, which has become the type, the incarnation of candid, sincere prayer, trusting in God [...] and which is now reproduced in marble and in plaster in almost every house in the two worlds" (C. Bianchi, "Gli orfani sulla rupe. Gruppo in marmo di Luigi Pampaloni" in 'L'Omnibus pittoresco', Naples 8 May 1852, p. 43).
The present sculpture represents one of the most celebrated models by Luigi Pampaloni, a pupil of Lorenzo Bartolini at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara: the 'Praying Boy' was modeled for the first time in plaster in 1826, part of the project for the funerary monument of the young daughter of the aristocrat Anna Potocka. The sculpture was immediately appreciated and then replicated in various examples: both the neoclassical influence and the more strictly 'romantic' and expressive characteristics of Pampaloni's work are clearly visible in it.