Lot 72
  • 72

A Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Late Roman Republican/Early Imperial, mid 1st Century B.C./early 1st Century A.D.

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7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • A Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Late Roman Republican/Early Imperial
  • Height 5 in. 12.7 cm.
his aging face with exaggerated features, parted lips, aquiline nose, large eyes, gnarled brow, and creased forehead, a wart on his right cheek, his hair radiating from the crown in overlapping locks and falling over the nape of the neck, the missing top of the head carved separately.

Provenance

Galerie Nefer, Zurich
Galerie Cybèle, Paris, 2003

Literature

Galerie Nefer, Zurich, Ausstellungskatalog. Catalogue d'exposition, Fall 1991, illus.
Paris, Drouot, Pierre Bergé & Associés, October 15th, 2005, no. 180, illus.

Catalogue Note

For a related example compare Copenhagen, Les portraits romains, vol. I, pls. XXX-XXXI.