Head of a Youth
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
500 Height x 210 Width x 210 mm Depth
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486385
Summary
Marble, Head of a Youth of about eighteen with the head turned to the left and the gaze directed outward.
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.
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. 130 - 131