Portrait Bust of a Woman (called Cleopatra)
Roman, 100 AD
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
100 AD - 199 AD
Materials
Parian marble with crystals
Measurements
660 x 470 x 230 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486334
Summary
Parian marble with crystals, Bust of a Woman (called Cleopatra), Roman, second century AD, inscribed on socle: Cleopatra. An idealised portrait head of a woman with an oval face and cupid's bow mouth. The head is crowned with a stephane adorned by a later hand with sun, moon and stars.
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
CLEOPATRA (inscribed on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman, 100 AD , 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.51,