Bust of a Boy with a Fillet adorned with Ivy (dedicated to Bacchus)
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
360 mm (Height); 200 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486356
Summary
Marble, Bust of a Boy with a Fillet adorned with Ivy (dedicated to Bacchus) A portrait bust of a boy with a round face and closed mouth looking straight ahead. The hair falls on the broad prominent forehead in straight, heavy locks which turn at the ends and an ivy wreath encircles the head.
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
50 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman, sculptor
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. 79