Lot Essay
This charming statuette of Minerva is rendered in the classicistic style with large eyes and a delicately pointed chin. She wears her aegis over a peplos-like garment and a helmet with side-flaps projecting outwards.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Said to be from the Bay of Naples.
Joly de Bammeville, Paris.
Catalogue d'une Collection de Monuments Antiques; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 April 1881, lot 7.
Joseph de Rémusat, Marseille, acquired by 1881.
Collection Joseph de Rémusat de Marseille; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-18 May 1900, lot 130.
Comtesse Martine-Marie-Octavie Pol de Béhague (1870-1939), Paris; thence by descent to Marquis Jean-Louis Hubert de Ganay (1922-2013), France.
Antiquites et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Behague, Provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 121.
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 104).
John Kluge (1914-2010), Charlottesville, acquired from the above.
The Morven Collection of Ancient Art; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2004, lot 483.
Joly de Bammeville, Paris.
Catalogue d'une Collection de Monuments Antiques; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 April 1881, lot 7.
Joseph de Rémusat, Marseille, acquired by 1881.
Collection Joseph de Rémusat de Marseille; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-18 May 1900, lot 130.
Comtesse Martine-Marie-Octavie Pol de Béhague (1870-1939), Paris; thence by descent to Marquis Jean-Louis Hubert de Ganay (1922-2013), France.
Antiquites et Objets d'Art: Collection de Martine, Comtesse de Behague, Provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 121.
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 104).
John Kluge (1914-2010), Charlottesville, acquired from the above.
The Morven Collection of Ancient Art; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2004, lot 483.
Literature
W. Froehner, Collection de feu M. Joly de Bammeville, Paris, 1881, no. 7.
F. Lenormant, Athéné Bronze Grec, Gazette Archéologique 7, 1881-1882, pp. 63-64, pl. 7.
S. Reinach, Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, Paris, 1897, vol. 2, p. 283, no. 7.
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, p. 53, no. 89-52.
F. Lenormant, Athéné Bronze Grec, Gazette Archéologique 7, 1881-1882, pp. 63-64, pl. 7.
S. Reinach, Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, Paris, 1897, vol. 2, p. 283, no. 7.
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, p. 53, no. 89-52.
Brought to you by
Claudio Corsi
Specialist, Head of Department
This charming statuette of Minerva is rendered in the classicistic style with large eyes and a delicately pointed chin. She wears her aegis over a peplos-like garment and a helmet with side-flaps projecting outwards.