Head of a boy
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
150 x 290 x 225 mm
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486370
Summary
Roman marble head of the Julio-Claudian period of a young boy with heavy straight hair, the bust draped and fastened on the right shoulder. The bust is of Parian marble.
Provenance
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
64 (painted on front of socle)