Roman Matron
.bro "Petworth © National Trust / Andrew Fetherston")
.bro "Petworth © National Trust / Andrew Fetherston")
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Italian marble
Measurements
503 x 245 x 230 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486351
Summary
Head and bust of a Roman matron of the Julio-Claudian period draped below the collar bone. From the centre of the forehead to the ears the hair is arranged in waves roughly indicated, caught in a coil which surrounds the crown, while five small curls fall on the temples.
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.