Empress Anna Galeria Faustina the elder (d.141)
Roman, 2nd Century AD
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
100 AD - 199 AD
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
240 x 495 x 240 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486366
Summary
Parian marble (very fine grained), Empress Anna Galeria Faustina the elder (d.141), Roman,2nd century. A portrait bust of the Empress Faustina as a young woman in the zenith of her beauty. The head is turned to the right with the gaze directed upward with soft wavy hair drawn simply back from the face and arranged in plaits on the crown of 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
60 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman, 2nd Century AD , sculptor