Details
A ROMAN BRONZE SILVANUS
CIRCA 150-200 A.D.
The majestic woodland god standing with his weight on his right leg, his left relaxed and bent at the knee, depicted nude but for his goat-skin laden with fruit at the crook of his arm, tied at his right shoulder and draped across his torso and left forearm, the goat's hind legs falling behind, its forelegs serving as the ties, the animal's head at the god's left shoulder, the fur rendered throughout, a goat-hoof rhyton in his left hand, a pruning hook in his right, wearing high animal-skin boots (embades), his toes exposed, his head turned slightly to his right, a prominent wreath of wheat surmounting his thick long hair, with individual curls cascading around his face, his full beard centrally divided
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high
Provenance
William Herbert Hunt; Sotheby's, New York, 19 June 1990, lot 50.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990.
Literature
von Bothmer, et al., Wealth of the Ancient World, The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collections, Fort Worth, 1983, no. 50.
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. 90-22.
J.J. Herrmann, "From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection," Minerva, vol. 7, no. 2, 1996, p. 43, fig. 12.
Exhibited
Wealth of the Ancient World, Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, and elsewhere, June 1983 - June 1984.
From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 26 March - 23 June 1996.
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