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A Roman Marble Figure of a Youth, circa 2nd Century A.D., with 18th-Century Head of Marcus Aurelius
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 GBP
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Description
- A Roman Marble Figure of a Youth
- marble
- Total height 67.5 cm.; height without plinth 63 cm.
standing with the weight on his left leg, his right arm raised, and wearing a chlamys fastened on his right shoulder, falling down his back, and wrapped around his left forearm; base, support, right leg, left lower leg, genitalia incl. pubic hair, left hand, right arm, and head restored.
Provenance
European private collection, circa 18th Century (based on restoration techniques)
American private collection, Long Island, acquired in the late 1970s/early 1980s
American private collection, Long Island, acquired in the late 1970s/early 1980s
Catalogue Note
The finely-carved restored head is a miniature portrait of the young Marcus Aurelius of the Uffizi-Toulouse type (cf. K. Fittschen, Prinzenbildnisse antoninischer Zeit, 1999, pl. 38).