Livia Augusta as Ceres
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
1930 mm (Height); 1360 mm (Height); 1220 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Greece
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 562913
Summary
Greek mainland marble antique statue of Livia Augusta as Ceres, on marble base and yellow marble pedestal. Statue 'represents Livia, or a Julio-Claudian pincess, as Ceres; early Imperial period, after Greek IV century originals' (Vermeule). Origin unknown. Early sources - Dallaway and Michaelis. Lack of information as to how Henry Hoare (1705-1785) obtained it suggests it was early acquisition. Description of figure in London Chronicle, 18 June 1757 (Woodbridge 1982) - originally in the Temple of Ceres (Flora) ? Literature also in James Dallaway Anecdotes of the Arts, 1800, p.384 and Of Stauary and Sculpture, 1816, p.314. Restorations to nose, right arm, left arm parts of base.