A Marble Portrait Head of a Man , Roman Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st half of the 1st Century A.D.

turned to his left, his commanding face with dimpled chin, broad mouth, and wide-set eyes, his hair falling in comma-shaped locks over the forehead and before the ears, his toga drawn over the head as a veil (the latter mostly restored in marble).

Count Karol Lanckorónski (1848-1933), Palais Lanckorónski, Vienna
Count Antoni Lanckorónski (d. 1965)
Countess Caroline Maria Adelheid Lanckorónska (1898-2002), Vienna and Fribourg (Sotheby's, London, November 27th, 1967, no. 72, illus.)
Archaeological Shop, Tel Aviv, 1979
French private collection

Christie's, New York, June 4th, 2008, no. 256, illus.

veil, front of nose, and patch on proper left eyebrow restored, edge of proper right ear abraded, proper left corner of bust broken and repaired, nicks and scratches overall
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Related veiled portraits are in the Foligno Archaeological Museum (R. Horn, Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1938, pp. 652f., fig. 12f.; H.R. Goette, Studien zur römischen Togadarstellungen, Mainz am Rhein, 1989, p. 121, no. B a 157, pl. 8.4.) and in the British Museum (I. Romeo, Ingenuus Leo [Xenia Antiqua Monographia, vol. 6], Rome, 1998, figs. 143-146, identified as Agrippa).

The entry which most closely matches the present sculpture in the wartime German inventories of the Palais Lanckorónski reads: "Bartloser Velatus, einer der  Caesaren. Marmor. Lebensgross. Antik?" The head was inventoried under number "A.L. 825" in 1939 and under number "1060" in 1942. After the palace was emptied out of its contents the portrait was most probably kept in Vienna during the war; it was returned to Antoni Lanckorónski on July 2nd, 1947.

On the Lanckorónski collection of ancient sculpture see W. Oenbrink, "Die ehemalige Skulpturensammlung des Grafen Karol Lanckoronski (1848-1933) in Wien," in J. Sliwa, ed., Archeologia Sródziemnomorska w Uniwersytecie Jagiellonskim 1897-1997, Kolloquium Krakau 1997, 1998, pp. 159 ff.