Lot 45
  • 45

A Marble Relief Portrait Head of a Man, Late Republican/Augustan, circa 40 B.C.-A.D. 14

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • A Marble Relief Portrait Head of a Man
  • Marble
  • Height 10 in. 25.4 cm.
from a family funerary relief, with dimpled chin, sharp furrows flanking the nostrils, prominent cheekbones, deep-set eyes, and furrowed brow, the hair falling in wavy locks over the forehead and temples.

Provenance

European private collection, acquired in Paris in the 1970s
by inheritance to the present owner, circa 1991

Catalogue Note

Cf. V. Kockel, Porträtreliefs stadtrömischer Grabbauten (Beiträge zur Erschließung hellenistischer und kaiserzeitlicher Skulptur und Architektur, vol. 12), Mainz am Rhein, 1993, pp. 119f., no. F1, pl. 31a., 32a-d. 33a.b (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/26170).