Bust of a Roman Matron
Roman 3rd Century AD
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
200 AD - 299 AD
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
460 x 475 x 280 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486368
Summary
Parian marble with crystals, Bust of a Roman Matron, Roman, Trajanic period, 3rd century AD. A portrait bust of a middle-aged matron with head turned to the right and a slightly quizzical expression while the eyes have a distant look. The hair, growing low on the forehead, is parted in the centre and drawn back simply into a large flat loose coil at the back, from whence escape two small curls on to the neck, with two longer curls falling from behind the ears to the shoulders and three small curls resting on each cheek 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
62 (painted on front of socle)
Makers and roles
Roman 3rd Century AD , 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. 100 - 101