A Fragmentary Roman Marble Head of a Youth, 1st/2nd Century A.D.

based on a Polykleitan prototype of the mid 5th Century B.C., probably the Ephebe Westmacott, turned to his right, his face with slightly parted lips.

Doris Duke (1912-1993), Hillsborough Township, New Jersey (Christie's, New York, The Doris Duke Collection, June 3rd, 2004, no. 383, illus., as Greek 4th Century B.C.)

The proper right half of the head now lacking, and the remaining half mounted in profile on red marble, the nose repaired in marble and in-painted through the upper lip and philtrum to match the surface, scattered chips and abrasions, the rim of the ear and the eyebrow abraded, a small chip under the chin and a larger one on the crown of the head.
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Cf. Polyklet: der Bildhauer der griechischen Klassik, Mainz am Rhein, 1990, pp. 591-594, cat. nos. 110-116.