Bust of Saloninus (or Emperor Valerianus II) as a Young Child
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 260 AD
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
350 mm (Height); 120 mm (Height); 170 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486357
Summary
Marble, Bust of Saloninus (or Emperor Valerianus II) as a Young Child. A portrait bust, draped in a toga with contabulatio. with a determined expression is turned three-quarters to the right and slightly downward while the eyes gaze straight out. The hair, slightly divided over the forehead, lies in flat curls and leaves free the large ears with heavy lobes.
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
51 (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. 80 - 81