THE BEAUTY WITHIN: The Chenel Collection
THE BEAUTY WITHIN: The Chenel Collection
A Roman Marble Figure of a Youth, circa 2nd Century A.D., with 18th-Century Head of Marcus Aurelius
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December 17, 04:07 PM GMT
Estimate
24,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Roman Marble Figure of a Youth
circa 2nd Century A.D., with 18th-Century Head of Marcus Aurelius
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.
Total height 67.5 cm.; height without plinth 63 cm.
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
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).