Lot 97
97
A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUTH
A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUTH
A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUTH
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A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUTH

CIRCA MID TO LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details
A ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF A YOUTH
CIRCA MID TO LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
34 1/2 in. (87.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Springel Collection (perhaps Dr. Francis Springell (1898-1974), Portinscale, Cumberland, U.K.).
with Jack Ogden, London, by 1985.
Art Market, London, acquired by 1995.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 5-6 December 2001, lot 620.

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Lot Essay

In a letter to a previous owner, the King's College archaeologist G.B. Waywell (1944-2016) considered this figure to belong to a series of funerary sculptures depicting youths with the attributes of various deities, including Dionysus, as suggested here by the bunch of grapes held in his left hand. The drapery of this paunchy figure is paralleled by a more fragmentary statue in the Museo Chiaramonti, pl. 328 in B. Andreae Bildkatalog der Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums, Bd. 1. Also related is the statue of a youth with the attributes of Hermes in Erbach (pl. 2 in K. Fittschen, Katalog der antiken Skulpturen in Schloss Erbach).

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