A Roman Marble Head of a Satyr circa 2nd Century A.D.

turned to his left, with lively expression,  his deeply drilled and tussled hair bound in a wreath of grapevine.

Count Antoni Lanckoronski (1883-1965), rue de Mont de Zion, Geneva
J. J. Klejman, New York, prior to 1974

Generally good except for the ancient damage to nose and lips. Minor chips elsewhere. The surface retains much of its ancient encrustation. The end of his fragmentary shepherd's crook rests on the back of his head. The apparent discoloration in the chin and mouth area is probably a vein of yellow marble("giallo antico") in the stone. The back of the head is more roughly carved, and there is a large shallow chip above the wreath on one side. The old label on the wood base, recording the Lankoronski provenance, is that of the respected New York dealer J.J. Klejman.
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Count Antoni Maria Kazimierz Lanckoronski was descended from an old and aristocratic Polish family. His father, the art patron, archaeologist, and author Count Karol Lanckoronski (1848-1933), served as Grand Steward to Emperor Franz Joseph I. Much of the Lanckoronski’s enormous art collection, acquired over centuries and including major works by Rembrandt and Uccello, was housed in the Palais Lanckoronski in Vienna, completed in 1895, as well as at the ancestral estate in Galicia. The palace and its contents were confiscated by the Nazis in 1938, the palace heavily damaged during the war, and what survived of the collection was returned to the family at war’s end. Count Antoni’s sister Countess Karolina Lankoronska was a distinguished art historian who  joined the Polish Resistance and was later captured and imprisoned at the Ravensbruck concentration camp. In later life she establish the Lanckoronski Foundation to benefit Polish art and culture, and wrote a memoir entitled Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman’s War Against the Nazis. Countess Karolina died in 2002 at the age of 104.