Property from a Belgian Private Collection
A FRAGMENTARY MARBLE RELIEF OF A RIVER GOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D., OR AFTER THE ANTIQUE
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Property from a Belgian Private Collection
ꦜ A FRAGMENTAR🌊Y MARBLE RELIEF OF A RIVER GOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D., OR AFTER THE ANTIQUE
carved in high relief with a reclining figure of a river god facing right, resting on an upturned vessel with water pouring out, and holding a bunch of flowers(?) in his left hand, a rocky outcrop and a large tree behind him, rushes and reeds in low relief in the background, a simple moulding along the upper and right edge; no restorations.
37 by 56 cm.
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priv𝔉ate collection, Southern Fra♏nce, acquired in the 1950s/1960s (sold at the Hôtel des Ventes de Montpellier in the early 2000s)
Galerie Chenel, rue du Bac
acquired by the present owner from the 🥂above in 2005
Other examples of self-standing reliefs depicting river gods are in Aquileia () and Florence (, ). For examples carved in low reliefs on the sides of a mythological sarcophagus see S. Reinach, Répertoire de reliefs grecs et romains, vol. 3, 1910, p. 130, nos. 2-3 ().