Statue of a Boy holding a Pig
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
1350 x 605 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486359
Summary
Marble, Roman work, probably of the first half of the 2nd century AD of a boy standing holding a pig across his chest. On a stump of a tree near his left leg is hung a sacrificial knife in a triangular sheath.
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
53 (painted on front of base)