A Roman Marble Torso of Narcissus, circa 1st Century A.D.
Estimate:
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Property from an American Private Collection
Estimate:
400,000 - 600,000 GBP
Property from an American Private Collection
A Roman Marble Torso of Narcissus
circa 1st Century A.D.
standing with the weight on his right leg, his right hand resting with the palm out behind his hip, his left hand formerly supported by a pillar; no restorations.
Height 67 cm.
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RECORDED
Two photographs in the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rome, taken in 1936 on the Roman art market (Barsanti), Inst.-Neg. Rom 36.504/5: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/825609 ; http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/825610 ; http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilder/160284 )
PUBLISHED
Ancient Art in American Private Collections. A Loan exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, 1954, p. 28, no. 167, pl. 49
Felix Eckstein, "Zwei amerikanische Kataloge," Gnomon, vol. 31, 1959, p. 645
Andreas Linfert, "Die Schule des Polyklet," in: H. Beck et al., eds., Polyklet. Der Bildhauer der griechischen Klassik, Mainz, 1990, p. 293, note 19