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CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN BRONZE MINERVA
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Classicistic in style, the goddess wearing her aegis over a peplos, the overfold falling to either side in symmetrical stepped folds, the skirt with long vertical flute-like folds around the right leg, the forward-projecting left knee visible beneath the fabric, the scales of the aegis finely incised, its edges perforated for the insertion of separately-made and now-missing snake heads, her arms positioned out to the sides, her crested helmet high on her head, the cheek-guards raised, her hair below patterned with dotted circles and pulled into a pony-tail that falls onto her back, her eyes articulated, on a pedestal base
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Classicistic in style, the goddess wearing her aegis over a peplos, the overfold falling to either side in symmetrical stepped folds, the skirt with long vertical flute-like folds around the right leg, the forward-projecting left knee visible beneath the fabric, the scales of the aegis finely incised, its edges perforated for the insertion of separately-made and now-missing snake heads, her arms positioned out to the sides, her crested helmet high on her head, the cheek-guards raised, her hair below patterned with dotted circles and pulled into a pony-tail that falls onto her back, her eyes articulated, on a pedestal base
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Said to be from the Bay of Naples.
Joly de Bammeville, Paris, 1893.
Joseph de Remusat.
Martine, Comtesse de Béhague, provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 121.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 104).
Joly de Bammeville, Paris, 1893.
Joseph de Remusat.
Martine, Comtesse de Béhague, provenant de la Succession du Marquis de Ganay; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 121.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 104).
Literature
W. Froehner, Collection de feu M. Joly de Bammeville, Paris, 1881, no. 7.
Lenormant, Gazette Archéologique, Paris, 1881-1882, pl. VII.
Collection Joseph de Rémusat de Marseille, Paris, 1900, no. 130, pl. VIII.
S. Reinach, Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, II, Paris, 1908, 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, no. 89-52.
Lenormant, Gazette Archéologique, Paris, 1881-1882, pl. VII.
Collection Joseph de Rémusat de Marseille, Paris, 1900, no. 130, pl. VIII.
S. Reinach, Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, II, Paris, 1908, 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, no. 89-52.
Exhibited
From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 26 March - 23 June 1996.
The Divine and the Domestic: Ancient Art from the Mediterranean, Charlottesville, Virginia, Bayly Art Museum, 30 January - 22 March 1998.
The Divine and the Domestic: Ancient Art from the Mediterranean, Charlottesville, Virginia, Bayly Art Museum, 30 January - 22 March 1998.