A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF THE 'HELLENISTIC BLIND' HOMER

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D., ROMAN COPY AFTER A HELLENISTIC ORIGINAL OF CIRCA 200 B.C.

细节

A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF THE 'HELLENISTIC BLIND' HOMER
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D., ROMAN COPY AFTER A HELLENISTIC ORIGINAL OF CIRCA 200 B.C.
The poet wearing a narrow fillet with thick curling beard and hair which covers the ears, with a single lock showing under the fillet at the centre of his wrinkled forehead, with sunken cheeks and heavy-lidded eyes, restored nose, moustache and back half of head, on later marble draped herm bust
10 in. (26 cm.) high

来源

Formerly in the Collection of The Countess of Sutherland, Dunrobin Castle, Scotland.

拍品专文

Cf. G. M. A. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, London, 1965, pp. 50-52 and Oxford, 1984 (abridged), pp. 146-148 for the type, including two in the Capitoline Museum (pl. 107) and one in the British Museum (pl. 108); B. S. Ridgway et al, Greek Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, 1994, pp. 93-95, no. 29; R.R.R. Smith, Hellenistic Sculpture, London, 1991, p. 37, pl. 35 (Naples 6023); and M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976, p. 75, no. 119.