A Marble Portrait Head of a Girl, Roman Imperial, Augustan, 27 B.C. - A.D. 14
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A Marble Portrait Head of a Girl, Roman Imperial, Augustan, 27 B.C. - A.D. 14
the neck carved for insertion into a statue, turned to her left, her face with delicate bow-shaped lips and large wide-set eyes under slightly arched eyebrows, her finely-carved hair parted in the center, bound in an invisible fillet, brushed in wavy locks over the sides, arranged in a nodus with central braid behind, tied in a broad braided chignon in back, and falling in long locks over the sides of the neck, finely engraved curls escaping over the forehead.
marble
height 11 ¾ in.
29.8 cm
Sir D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne (1884-1964), 12th Duke of Leeds in 1963, London and Rome;
Prince Johannes von Schwarzenberg (1903-1978), Vienna, acquired from the above circa 1950;
Thence by descent, Private Collection, Austria (Sotheby's, New York, June 4th, 2014, lot 34, illus.);
Where acquired by the present collector.
Munich, Antike am Königsplatz. Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, 1991-2014;
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2014 to May 2017;
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, August 2021 to August 2024.
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