A Mourning Woman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
300 BC - 100 BC
Materials
Marble
Measurements
2025 x 715 x 515 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486317
Summary
Greek marble sculpture, A Mourning Woman. A marble statue of the Hellenistic type of 2nd or 3rd century BC the head and drapery ascribed possibly to the school of sculpture which flourished at Tralles during the Hellenistic age and which was strongly influenced by Attic types. The statue represents a tall majestic draped woman advancing slowly, her head bent forward in an attitude of grief.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont in 1760 thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72), arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M. Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
11 (painted on front of base)
References
Wyndham 1915 Margaret Wyndham Catalogue of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Possession of Lord Leconfield, The Medici Society, 1915, pp.19-20