Head of a Boy
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
140 x 310 x 135 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486350
Summary
Hellenistic type marble head of a child looking to the right with the gaze directed upward. The face is chubby with dimples in the cheeks and chin and the smiling mouth is open showing the teeth.
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
44 (painted on front of socle)