[4] In 1882 he sculpted L'Angelo della morte ('The Angel of Death') for the Brayda tomb in the Turin cemetery known as the Cimitero Monumentale di Torino.

From this time until 1914 Bistolfi produced many busts, medals and portraits of prominent figures including the Piedmontese painter Lorenzo Delleani, the kings of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I, the criminologist Cesare Lombroso, the writer Edmondo De Amicis, and the publisher and journalist Emilio Treves.

In 1892 he began a two-year task of decorating Chapel XVI of the Sacro Monte di Crea, one of the Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy.

In 1906 he produced a monument to the painter Giovanni Segantini La bellezza liberata dalla materia ('Beauty liberated from matter') known also as L'alpe ('the Alp'), which is conserved at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

Sculpture by Bistolfi is also to be found in the Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno of Genoa, a town where his influence was seen in the work of a number of sculptors, particularly those specializing in funerary art.