Head of a Youth in the Character of Hermes
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1 AD - 99 AD
Materials
Pentelic marble
Measurements
190 x 385 x 345 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486331
Summary
Marble, Head of a Youth in the Character of Hermes, Roman, of Augustan age. Adaptation of a 4th century BC Attic head in the style of Praxiteles. The face oval with the hair rising from the broad forehead in masses of heavy curls.
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
25 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman, sculptor