A Marble Torso of a Youth, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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Description

A Marble Torso of a Youth
Height 23 5/8 in. 60 cm.

probably Dionysos, the young god standing against a tree-trunk support with the weight on his right leg, and wearing an animal skin draped over the back and left shoulder, mortises for insertion of the separately made arms and animal skin folds.

Provenance

Christie's, London, November 17th-18th, 1977, no. 430, illus.
Galerie Serres, Paris

Catalogue Note

For a marble figure of Dionysos with similarly draped animal skin, formerly in the Giustiniani collection and now in the Torlonia collection, see S. Reinach, Répertoire de la sculpture grecque et romaine, vol. I, Paris, 1897, p. 415, no. 5 (vol. II, Paris, 1908, p. 112, no. 2).