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A Roman Marble Head of a Maenad, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
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Description
- A Roman Marble Head of a Maenad
- marble
- Height 22.5 cm.
after a late Hellenistic Greek original, turned to her left, her face with full parted lips and heavy-lidded eyes, her long hair brushed back over the ears, gathered in a knot on the crown, bound in a fillet passing over the forehead, and surmounted by a wreath adorned with clusters of berries, two small locks escaping over the forehead and before the ears, voluted curls beneath the ears; no restorations.
Provenance
said to have been found in Beirut
Louis de Clercq (1882-1901), Oignies
Comte Henri de Boisgelin (1901-1967)
Nicolas Koutoulakis, Paris and Geneva
Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, Millon et Associés, Archéologie et Préhistoire, December 13th, 2016, no. 207, illus.
Louis de Clercq (1882-1901), Oignies
Comte Henri de Boisgelin (1901-1967)
Nicolas Koutoulakis, Paris and Geneva
Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, Millon et Associés, Archéologie et Préhistoire, December 13th, 2016, no. 207, illus.
Literature
André de Ridder, Collection De Clercq. Catalogue, vol. 4: Les marbres, les vases peints et les ivoires, Paris, 1906, p. 37f., no. 32, pl. 11
Nina Jidejian, Beirut through the Ages, Beirut, 1973, p. 139, fig. 77
Nina Jidejian, Beirut through the Ages, Beirut, 1973, p. 139, fig. 77
Catalogue Note
Two other Roman copies of the same Greek original are in the Vatican: one in the Museo Chiaramonti (B. Andreae, ed., Bildkatalog der Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums, vol. I.1, 1994, pls. 28f.; C. Vorster, Museo Gregoriano Profano. Katalog der Skulpturen, vol. II.2, 2004, p. 143, no. 86, pl. 104), the other in the storerooms (G. Kaschnitz-Weinberg, Sculture del magazzino del Museo Vaticano, 1937, p. 86, no. 175, pl. 34).
The original appears to date to the late Hellenistic period.
The original appears to date to the late Hellenistic period.