A Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Roman Imperial, circa early 1st Century A.D.

turned to his right, with dimpled chin, prominent nose, and determined gaze, his hair radating from the crown and falling in short crescentic locks brushed to his left over the forehead, on a later alabaster bust and variegated red marble turned socle.

French private collection, acquired prior to 1980

Tip of nose restored most likely in marble and painted over. Proper right ear better preserved than proper left. Rims of ears probably once restored with plaster. Stress crack running from behind head across proper right side, proper right eye, and mouth. Small area of restoration at end of proper right eyebrow. Eyebrows and area of forehead above nose appear to have been somewhat touched up. Mouth appears to have been reworked. Surface of neck repolished. The bust pieced together from several fragments and reinforced with cement in back. The turned socle probably 19th century.
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