Head of a Greek Athlete
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1 AD - 99 AD
Materials
Fine-grained unidentified Greek marble
Measurements
635 x 400 x 250 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486330
Summary
Fine-grained Greek marble, Head of a Greek Athlete, Roman, 1st century AD copy of a bronze of 5th century BC, possibly by Kresilas, of a head of an athlete. The head is turned to the left and wearing round his brow the victor's chaplet. The head is falsely mounted on a modern bust.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, 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
24 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman, sculptor
References
Wyndham 1915 Margaret Wyndham, Catalogue of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Possession of Lord Leconfield, The Medici Society, 1915, p. 44-45 Penny 1993 Nicholas Penny, The Materials of Sculpture, Yale, 1993, p. 70-74, pls 65 - 66