Term of the Bearded Dionysos
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
590 x 366 x 345 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486327
Summary
Marble, Term of the Bearded Dionysos. A terminal marble bust of Dionysos in the manner of the 5th century BC. The head has a heavy curled beard and two long locks of hair from the ears to below the shoulders.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremong 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
21 (painted on front of bottom of bust)
Makers and roles
Roman, sculptor