A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF AN ATHLETE

Лот 47
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Лот 47 | A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF AN ATHLETE
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£ 200 000 – 300 000
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF AN ATHLETE

CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.

10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) high





Provenance

Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798), Rome.

Sir William Petty Fitzmaurice (1737-1805), 2nd Earl of Shelburne and later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, acquired from the above as a 'Cestiario or boxer' in 1775 for £20 and mentioned in a letter of 6th May 1775.

Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Ancient Marbles the Property of the Most Honourable The Marquess of Lansdowne, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 5th March 1930, lot 97.

Altounian-Lorbet Gallery, Mâcon, acquired at the above sale for £47.

with George N. Krimitsas, Paris.

Highly important Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1966, lot 179.

Rudolph Forrer, London.

Private collection, Liechtenstein.

Private collection, Switzerland.



Literature

Letter from Hamilton to Lord Shelburne, 6th May 1775, reproduced in I. Bignamini & C. Hornsby, Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome, vol. II, London, 2010, p. 66, no. 119.

Catalogue of the Lansdowne Marbles, 1810, lot 3.

Comte de Clarac, Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, planches, V, Paris, 1839-1841, pl. 851.

Comte de Clarac, Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, V, Paris, 1851, p. 119, no. 2180A.

A. Michaelis, 'Die Sammlung Lansdowne', in Archaeologischer Anzeiger 20, 1862, p. 339.

A. Michaelis, ‘Lansdowne House‘, in Archäologische Zeitung 32, 1875, p. 35, no. 3.

A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 438, no. 3.

A.H. Smith, A Catalogue of the Ancient Marbles at Lansdowne House based upon the work of Adolf Michaelis. With an Appendix containing Original Documents relating to the Collection, London, 1889, p. 14, no. 3.

A. Furtwängler, Meisterwerke der Griechischen Plastik, Berlin, 1893, p. 446.

A. Furtwängler, Masterpieces of Greek sculpture, 1895, London, p. 245.

S. Reinach, Repertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, Vol. I, Paris, 1897, p. 517, pl. 851, no. 2180A.

C. Anti, "Monumenti Policletei", in Monumenti Antichi, Vol. 26:2, 1921, p. 633, no. 19.

S. Howard, Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, eighteenth-century restorer, PhD Thesis 1958, Chicago 1980, pp. 89-90, 96.

Olympic Museum (ed.), Antiquity and Olympism, Lausanne, 1993, p. 4.

J. A. Rebassa (éd.), Art y Olympisme; Palma de Mallorca, Oviedo, Las Palmas, May 1999 - January 2000, p. 131 no. 108.

Animan, no. 123/108 August-September 2004 issue, p. 22.

I. Bignamini & C. Hornsby, Digging and Dealing in eighteenth-century Rome, London, 2010, Vol. II, p. 66, no. 119.

E. Angelicoussis, Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles, Vol. II, Munich, 2017, pp. 132-135, no. 16.

Arachne. Datenbank und kulturelle Archive des Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik Köln und des Deutsches Archäologisches Instituts, 1103042.



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