Purportedly the Consul Horatius
Italian (Roman) School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
White marble head on a verde-Africano, Brocatello and veined red marble toga, joined with a porphyry boss on a veined pink marble waisted socle
Measurements
7100 x 545 mm
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Hinton Ampner, Hampshire
NT 1530146
Summary
White marble head on a verde-Africano, Brocatello and veined red marble toga, joined with a porphyry boss on a veined pink marble waisted socle, Purportedly the Consul Horatius, Italian (Roman) School, 17th century with antique fragment. Inscribed: Horatius Consular. A seventeenth-century white marble portrait bust of the Consul Horatius, his toga sculpted from verde-Africano, Brocatello and veined red marble, joined with a porphyry boss inscribed Horatius Consular on veined pink marble waisted socle. The head appears to contain an Antique fragment, but the rest - including the inscription Horatius Consular: - is a later pastiche. Previously in the collections of Cardinal Mazarin and the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House.
Provenance
Collection Cardinal Mazarin (1602 - 1661) (Country Life); Pembroke collection and by descent to Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke and 12th Earl of Montgomery (1880 - 1960); bought at Wilton House sale, 3 July 1961; bequeathed by Ralph Dutton, 8th Lord Sherborne (1898–1985)
Marks and inscriptions
Horatius Consular
Makers and roles
Italian (Roman) School, sculptor Roman, sculptor