Portrait of a Roman Youth
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
215 AD - 230 AD
Materials
Italian marble, Parian marble
Measurements
340 x 490 x 250 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486346
Summary
Marble head of the 3rd century AD, bust of the Trajanic type, inclining to the left with a moustache and a youthful beard covering a somewhat weak chin. The eyes are prominent. The head is of Italian marble; the bust is of Parian marble.
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
40 (painted on front of socle)