Bust of a Bacchante
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
220 x 340 x 190 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486338
Summary
Set on a modern bust, the bacchante has a marble small round head which is thrown back with eyes looking upward. The parted lips are laughing and the hair has tendril curls on the forehead and in front of the ears, and is drawn back in waved locks into a knot at the back of the head.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egrement, 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
32 (painted on front of socle)