Lot 43
  • 43

A Marble Figure of Apollo, Roman Imperial, circa 1st Century A.D.

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • A Marble Figure of Apollo, Roman Imperial
  • Height 20 in. 50.8 cm.
inspired by a Greek sculpture by Praxiteles of the 4th Century B.C. , the young deity standing with the weight on his left leg and his right hand on his hip, and wearing a baldric slung over his right shoulder, the strap with a circular hole at the back for attachment of the now missing separately-carved quiver, the ends of a fillet falling over the shoulders in the back.

Provenance

acquired in Brussels circa 1982/1987