ITALIAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF EROS
Italian, early 19th century
On a later circular waisted marble socle; the reverse simply finished. Very minor chips.
20½ in. (52.1 cm.) high
25¾ in. (65.4 cm.) high, overall

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
T. Weiss, Von der Schönheit Weissen Marmors, Mainz, 1999, no. 12.

Lot Essay

The present bust is after a 2nd century AD marble bust known as the Centocello Eros in the Pio Clementino Museum, Rome. Its arrival in Rome in 1792 resulted in a number of copies being made, some of just the head alone and a small number of the whole bust. Another example of this latter type can be found in the Villa Hamilton, Wölitz, Germany (Weiss, loc. cit.).

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