Greek Head of an Old Man
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
100 AD - 130 AD
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
310 x 140 x 265 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486336
Summary
Parian marble, Greek Head of an Old Man, early 2nd century AD copy of a third century BC bronze original of a Greek portrait head. The marble portrait head is that of a man of advancing years with pleasant dignified expression, a broad square forehead, deep inset eyes, moustache, beard and untidy hair making a square frame for the face.
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
30 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman, sculptor