Head of a Boy with a Cap
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Italian marble
Measurements
125 x 350 x 255 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486349
Summary
Marble head of a boy of under ten years of age with curly hair almost entirely covered by a cap which rises in a point at the top and has a small peak over the forehead. The head inclines slightly downward and the child looks shyly from under the peak of the cap. Fine grained, greyish white Italian 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
43 (painted on front of socle)