Herm bust of a youth
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1 AD - 99 AD
Materials
Marble
Measurements
255 x 175 x 210 mm
Order this imageCollection
Cliveden Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 766226
Summary
Marble, a herm bust of a young man, historically catalogued as Roman, 1st century AD, with substantial modern restoration. A marble herm bust of a young man terminating in a square pillar; one of four installed as posts within a stone lattice screen. The hair chiselled and drilled to produce tight curls, the nose and upper lip broken off, the neck with a repaired break line.
Full description
William Waldorf Astor like many of his European and American contemporaries, collected Italian works of art and architectural fragments. Most established sculpture galleries in the interiors of their houses to display their collections. They relied heavily on the examples set by their curator friends, such as Dr Von Bode, the curator of the Kaiser Wilhelm II Museum in Berlin and associated with the Burlington magazine and the dealers Agnew‟s and Colnaghi‟s. Astor, untypically, created an outdoor display space for his own collections; this screen and four sculpted heads formed a prominent feature of the Italian Garden laid out in 1902. Text adapted from the Cliveden Gazetteer, Collections, vol. I.