Ideal Female Head
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
117 AD - 138 AD
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
210 x 180 x 220 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486335
Summary
Parian marble, Ideal Female Head, Roman copy of the Hadrianic period based on Greek 5th century BC type. The marble portrait head is of a girl with an oval face, long narrow eyes and broad forehead, the hair is drawn from the top of the head in close waves parted low on the forehead and drawn back into a small flat knot at the back. Parian marble with crystals.
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
29 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman, sculptor