PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY RATHER THAN EARLIER

细节

A PARIAN MARBLE 'PSEUDO-SENECA' 'HERM' BUST
PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY RATHER THAN EARLIER
With long wavy hair and fringe, moustached and bearded, the eyes with unarticulated pupils, with furrowed brow and wrinkled neck, his cheeks sunken, iron ring at reverse, right shoulder repaired, on socle base
14½ in. (37 cm.) high

来源

''...acquired circa 1920 in the Southern (Kent) part of London; it was exhibited for sale in a courtyard, and is understood to have come from some country-house collection.'' [Seeberg]

The bust almost certainly comes from Knole House and was collected by the 3rd Duke of Dorset around the last quarter of the 18th Century. In 1920 the famous 'Columbrano Demosthenes' from Knole was sold to a Scandinavian museum. For a male portrait bust from Knole variously dated as Roman or 18th Century by Cavaceppi, cf. C. A. Picon, Bartolomeo Cavaceppi: Eighteenth-Century restorations of ancient marble sculpture from English private collections, London, 1983, p. 52-53, pl. 10.

注意事项

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拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
A. Seeberg, "Disjecta Membra", ACTA: Ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia, Institutum Romanum Norvegiae, Vol. I, Universitetsforlaget, 1962, pp. 17-18, pls. I-II where the herm is accepted as being ancient.

For a discussion of the Pseudo-Seneca type, cf. G. M. A. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, Oxford, 1984, pp. 191-192, the best preserved being a bronze bust in the National Museum, Naples, inv. 5616. Many proposals have been put forward for the identification of the portrait who is not now seen to be Seneca, one of the most persuasive being that it represents Hesiod.