Youth crowned with a Laurel Wreath
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Carrara marble
Measurements
220 x 490 x 290 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486377
Summary
The marble head is of the Julio-Claudian period and the round youthful face bears some resemblance to the Imperial family. The hair is combed on to the forehad in straight locks turned at the ends. The head is bound with a wreath of laurel leaves and berries, knotted behind with a ribbon.
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
71 (painted on front base of socle)