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A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Antonine, mid-2nd Century A.D.
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
- A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Antonine
- MARBLE
- Height 42 cm.
turned slightly to his left, his broad face with short moustache, long sideburns, eyes with incised irises and drilled pupils, and voluminous hair of dense curls, the neck carved for insertion into a statue; chin and nose formerly restored.
Provenance
European private collection, 19th Century or earlier (based on plinth and restoration techniques)
private collection, Paris, acquired in the 1980s (Drouot, Paris, Vente Classique, June 10th, 2016, no. 10, illus.)
private collection, Paris, acquired in the 1980s (Drouot, Paris, Vente Classique, June 10th, 2016, no. 10, illus.)
Catalogue Note
This portrait shows stylistic traits of the early Antonine period. For the thickness and rendering of the hair cf. a portrait in Florence: K. Fittschen, Prinzenbildnisse antoninischer Zeit, 1999, p. 86, no. 41, pl. 153a–b. For the fashion of the beard cf. some heads of the Uffizi-Toulouse portrait type of Marcus Aurelius: Fittschen, op. cit., pls. 40f.