A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS

Lot 73
17.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 60 000
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ID 1037593
Lot 73 | A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 90 000
A ROMAN MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS

CIRCA EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.

78 in. (198.1 cm.) long





Provenance

Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio, Rome, 16th century (wherein seen and partially drawn by Giovannantonio Dosio (1533–1611), Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Ms. lat. Fol. 61n).

Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564-1637), Rome; thence by continuous descent within the Giustiniani family until at least the late 19th/early 20th century.

Private Collection; thence by descent.

Property from a California Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 15 December 2016, lot 62.



Literature

Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, vol. II, Rome, circa 1640, pl. 98.

K. O. Müller, Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst, 3rd edition, Breslau, 1848, p. 655.

G. Zoega, Manuscript apparatus to the Bassirilievi di Roma, late 18th century, Royal Library, Copenhagen, fol. 299.

O. Jahn, “Über ein Marmorrelief der Glyptothek in München,” Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich-Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, vol. 6, 1854, p. 182, n. 101; p. 190, n. 148.

O. Jahn, Entführung der Europa auf antiken Kunstwerken, Vienna, 1870, p. 51, n. 4.

F. Matz and F. von Duhn, Antike Bildwerke in Rom: mit Ausschluss der grösseren Sammlungen, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1881, p. 379, no. 3197.

F. R. Dressler, Triton und die Tritonen in der Litteratur und Kunst der Griechen und Römer, vol. 2, Wurzen, 1893, p. 14, no. 19.

W.H. Roscher, ed., Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Leipzig, 1916-1924, p. 1193.

C. Hülsen, Das Skizzenbuch des Giovannantonio Dosio im Staatlichen Kupferstichkabinett zu Berlin, Berlin, 1933, p. 59.

A. Rumpf, Die Meerwesen auf den antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. V.1, Berlin, 1939, pp. 26-28, no. 71, figs. 40-41, pl. 20.

Angela Gallottini, Le sculture della collezione Giustiniani: I. Documenti, Rome, 1998, p. 69, fig. 22; p. 272, no. 279.
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