- 3038
A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF EROS CIRCA AD 2ND CENTURY |
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 HKD
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Description
- h. 48.3 cm, 19 in.
standing with the weight on his left leg, his left arm lowered and right arm once leaning on a support, his head formerly turned to the left, a mortise below each shoulder in back for insertion of separately made wings
Provenance
Bruce and Ingrid McAlpine Ancient Art, London.
J. Bunyan, Chappaqua, New York, acquired from the above on 2nd February 1983.
J. Bunyan, Chappaqua, New York, acquired from the above on 2nd February 1983.
Catalogue Note
The statuary composition recalls the Apollo Anzio type; compare a copy at Petworth House, West Sussex, included in Joachim Raeder, Die antiken Skulpturen in Petworth House (West Sussex), Mainz, 2000, cat. no. 10, Arachne no. 25131 (arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/25131). For the figure of a leaning Eros, see a bronze applique in Thessaloniki, illustrated in Angelos Delivorrias, 'Was von einem klassischen Eros geblieben ist', Mouseion. Beiträge zur antiken Plastik. Festschrift für Peter Cornelis Bol, Hans von Steuben et al. eds, Möhnesee, 2007, p. 212, fig. 8.