She playing a tambourine, he hopping and holding a ribbon, both on a circular black marble base, the female signed to the base Cumberworth Scpt | Rupert Gunnis suggested in The Dictionary of British Sculptors that Cumberworth was born in America although it seems more likely he was born in Verdun, France which is more commonly cited. In 1829 Cumberworth entered the School of Fine Arts in Paris and studied under Pradier and exhibited at the Paris Salon between 1833-1848 | Provenance:
Private Collection, England
