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拍品专文
Hector-Martin Lefuel was a leading French architect during the Second French Empire. During his career he worked on Château de Meudon, Château de Fontainebleau, and Palais des Beaux-Arts et de l'Industrie, and received many honours inluding the Prix de Rome and Commander of the Légion d'honneur. His most famous project, however, was the completion of the Palais du Louvre under the order of Napoléon III. Throughout the long period of his involvement with the Louvre he received a series of gifts, including paintings and antiquities, from the museum. Although no records explicitly mention the present lot, it is possible that it was one such gift.
This head is part of an iconographic series mostly found in the Idalion-Golgoi region. Cf. V. Karageorghis et al., Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, p. 211, no. 340 for a similar piece said to be found in Golgoi. For another similar head, also from the Cesnola Collection, cf. Louvre no. AM 3453.
This head is part of an iconographic series mostly found in the Idalion-Golgoi region. Cf. V. Karageorghis et al., Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, p. 211, no. 340 for a similar piece said to be found in Golgoi. For another similar head, also from the Cesnola Collection, cf. Louvre no. AM 3453.