Bust of a Young Woman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Luna marble
Measurements
690 x 465 mm; 250 mm (Height); 540 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486374
Summary
Marble , Bust of a Young Woman. Possibly an Antonine copy of a portrait of a young woman of the first century. The hair consists of three rows of crisp curls mounted on a frame and arranged on the forehead in the form of a triangle falling onto the cheeks entirely covering the temples, and the rest of the hair is arranged in small plaits and drawn back and up into a knot on the cramium. The shoulder bust is draped in a tunic fastened with buttons on both shoulders, and encircled by a shawl the ends crossing in front.
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
68 (painted on front of socle)
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. 110 - 111