A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Woman, Trajanic, early 2nd Century A.D.

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Property from an American Private Collection

A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Woman

Trajanic, early 2nd Century A.D.

her hair arranged in front in three neatly waved rows, each centrally parted by voluted curls, a bunch of loose curls in the centre of the top row, the hair in back braided in many plaits and wound into a large coil behind; nose formerly restored in marble, no restorations.

Height 30.5 cm.

European private collection, 19th Century or earlier (based on restoration techniques)
private collection, Quebec
Magasin des Valeurs, Montreal
acquired by the current owner from the above

The present head is a private portrait from the Trajanic period. Related portraits are in Rome (K. Fittschen, P. Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen, vol. 3, 1983, p. 52, no. 67, pl. 84f.: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/39298), in Aquileia (V. Santa Maria Scrinari, Museo Archeologico di Aquileia. Catalogo delle sculture romane, 1972, p. 79, no. 241), and in Venice (G. Traversari, Museo Archeologico di Venezia. I ritratti, 1968, p. 58f., no. 37).