Head of a Girl
Roman 3rd Century AD
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
200 AD - 299 AD
Materials
Parian marble with crystals
Measurements
575 x 400 x 230 mm; 440 mm (Height); 210 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486354
Summary
Parian marble with crystals, Head of a Girl, Roman copy of a Greek head of the school of Praxiteles placed on an antique bust of Roman workmanship of the third century AD which is too large for it. The marble head is that of a young girl with the hair drawn from the forehead in waved locks and fastened into a small flat bow at the back, with two small locks falling onto the cheeks just in front of the ears.
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
48 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman 3rd Century AD , publisher
References
Wyndham 1915 Margaret Wyndham, Catalogue of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Possession of Lord Leconfield, The Medici Society, 1915, p. 77