Bust of a Roman Matron
Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
697 x 405 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486373
Summary
Parian marble, Bust of a Roman Matron, Roman A portrait bust of a Roman matron wearing a high stephane, possibly of the early Antonine period, the head turned to the left with the gaze directed very slightly upward. The wavy hair is parted on the forehead, the front locks drawn towards the ears and the ends twisted up under the stephane. The rest of the hair is collected into two heavy coils which cross at the back and are twisted round the crown in a high double coil.
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
67 (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. 108 - 109