A ROMAN MARBLE BUST OF ODYSSEUS

Lot 3
07.02.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementEtats-Unis, New York
ID 1357917
Lot 3 | A ROMAN MARBLE BUST OF ODYSSEUS
Valeur estimée
$ 150 000 – 250 000
A ROMAN MARBLE BUST OF ODYSSEUS
CIRCA LATE 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D., WITH 18TH CENTURY RESTORATIONS POSSIBLY BY BARTOLOMEO CAVACEPPI (1716-1799)
19 ¾ in. (50.1 cm.) high




Provenance

Lord Frederick Augustus Hervey (1730-1803), 4th Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Cloyne (1767-1768) and Bishop of Derry (1768-1803), Downhill and Bellaghy, County Londonderry and Ickworth, acquired by 1801.
McElderay Collection, Ireland, acquired between 1920-1934.
Art Market, U.K.
European Furniture, Works of Art, Tapestries and Carpets, Christie's, London, 22 November 2005, lot 423 (part).
Art Market, U.K., acquired from the above.
Private Collection, France.
Art Market, France.
with Jean-David Cahn, Basel, 2006.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2008 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIX, no. 17; Minerva, vol. 18, no. 5, 2007, n.p.).
Christian Levett, London, acquired from the above on behalf of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2008.



Literature

J.H.W. Tischbein and C.G. Heyne, Homer nach Antiken gezeichnet, Göttingen, 1801, pt. 1, pp. 35-36; pt. 2, pl. 1.
G. Rathgeber, “Münzen von Ithaka, aus dem verglichen Münzkabinett zu Gotha,” Numismatische Zeitung, no. 17, 5 September 1837, p. 33.
M. Kunze, ed., Wiedergeburt griechischer Götter und Helden: Homer in der Kunst der Goethezeit, Mainz am Rhein, 1999, pp. 85, 118, no. IV.11, cat. no. 14d,
H. Wiegel, “In Morgenmantel und Mitra irrte er durch die Stadt,“ Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 September 2007.
S. Albersmeier, Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece, Baltimore, 2009, pp. 194-195, no. 18.
S. Albersmeier, "Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece", Minerva, vol. 20, no. 6, November-December 2009, p. 22, fig. 2.
C. Levett, “Pieces of the Classical Past,” Minerva, vol. 22, no. 3, May-June 2011, p. 51, fig. 4.
J. Pollini, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 87, figs. 26-27.
“Rediscovered Masterpieces at the European Fine Art Fair,” The Global Edition of the New York Times, advertising supplement, 18 February 2011, p. 8.
M. Merrony, ed., Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins: La Collection Famille Levett, Mougins, 2012, p. 56, fig. 6.
J.L. Fitton, et al., "Troy Enduring Stories," in A. Villing et al., ed., Troy: Myth and Reality, London, 2019, pp. 198-199, figs. 197-198.



Exhibited

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum; Nashville, First Center for Visual Arts; San Diego Museum of Art; New York, Onassis Cultural Center, Heroes, Mortals and Myth in Ancient Greece, 11 October 2009-3 January 2011.
London, The British Museum, Troy: Myth and Reality, 21 November 2019-8 June 2020.
Mougins Museum of Classical Art, June 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA176).
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