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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 218 and 399-400; Alexandre, p. 122 where the author suggests this might be a contemporary portrait of Alexander.
Cf. Exhibition catalogue: La gloire d'Alexandrie, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris 1998, p. 56, no. 20, a similar terracotta head from the Greek and Roman Museum in Alexandria, Inv. 23168; also M. Bieber, Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art, Chicago, 1964, Pl. XLI-XLII, figs 80-85, the Brooklyn alabaster bust.
Cf. Exhibition catalogue: La gloire d'Alexandrie, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris 1998, p. 56, no. 20, a similar terracotta head from the Greek and Roman Museum in Alexandria, Inv. 23168; also M. Bieber, Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art, Chicago, 1964, Pl. XLI-XLII, figs 80-85, the Brooklyn alabaster bust.