The son of a New York City photographer, Charles Ulrich is relatively unknown in the United States. After 1885, he lived in Italy and Germany, rarely returning home. Here he captures the Italian sculptor Antonio dal Zotto (1852-1918) in his Venice studio, surrounded by plaster casts including Antonio Canova’s cautionary Daedalus and Icarus and Andrea del Verrochio’s fierce equestrian monument to Renaissance war lord Bartolomeo Colleoni. Dal Zotto is working on a maquette for his bronze statue of the beloved 18th-century playwright Carlo Goldoni. The bronze still stands in Campo San Bartolomeo, a Venetian square. Goldoni’s plays are among the earliest to address the lives, values and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Similarly, Ulrich preferred to paint artisans and craftsmen at work, rather than focusing on the rich.