A Marble Figure of a Togatus, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd Century A.D.

standing with his weight on the left leg and wearing sandals with crossed straps and toga falling in long folds over the right knee and tucked in at the waist, a document in the left hand, scrolls bound at his feet.

Doria-Pamphili Collection, Rome, assembled for the most part in the mid 17th Century
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1907-1988), Norfolk, Virginia, and New York
Estate of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (Sotheby's, New York, June 23rd, 1989, no. 182, illus.)
New York art market
A la Reine Margot, Paris
acquired from the above by the present owners in the 1990s

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, 1977 (loan no. L77.408)

Comte de Clarac, Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, vol. V, Paris, 1851, p. 78, no. 2298d, pl. 909
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire gecque et romaine, vol. I, 1906, p. 558, no. 2
Annarena Ambrogi, Villa Doria Pamphilj: Storia della collezione, Rome, 2001, p. 181, note 123
Arachne, no. 350977

Proper left shoulder restored with modern plaster applied to conceal joins, edge of hanging drapery restored and repaired in several areas, front of base and feet restored, back of base and feet restored in plaster, plaster on side and back of scroll, top of scroll once restored in marble and lost as are several parts of drapery, head and proper right forearm formerly restored, surface weathered overall, tall bent iron clamp securing the figure to the modern base, a large chunk of the base missing where it meets clamp.
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When the statue was in the Chrysler Collection it had a modern Republican-style portrait head, which has since been removed. The head is still visible in the 1989 Sotheby's sale catalogue photograph.

Clarac's engraving of a togatus formerly in the Doria-Pamphili Collection matches the present figure, albeit with a different head resembling a portrait of Titus. The engraving shows restored parts which have since disappeared, namely the right hand at rest and holding drapery folds, and several segments of drapery. The total height of the Doria-Pamphili statue, as given by Clarac ("7 palmes, 6 pouces") matches that of the present statue when it still had its Republican-style head (165 cm.). Clarac notes that the front of the left foot, the toes of the right foot, and part of the base were restored, as they indeed are on the present statue. The tall and tightly bound flaring bundle of scrolls is a highly unusual feature among togati, and yet another strong indicator that the Chrysler statue and the Doria-Pamphili figure are one and the same.