Memorial Bust of a Girl
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Luna marble
Measurements
350 x 450 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486375
Summary
A Middle Antonine period marble memorial bust of a girl of about fifteen or sixteen years of age who died unmarried. The head is turned to the right and the gaze is directed outwards. The face is round and the hair, parted in front, is much puffed over the ears, concealing them entirely, and is arranged low on the forehead in waves. These are drawn back over a fillet which surrounds the head and appears as an ornament consisting of a bar connecting two balls of ivy berries. The hair is massed into a prominent round knot at the back. The bust is draped in a tunic of light material falling in many folds and fastened on the right shoulder with two buttons.
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
69 (painted on front of socle)