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A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
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FACES OF THE PAST: ANCIENT SCULPTURE FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTON PESTALOZZI While Dr. Anton Pestalozzi was best-known as a prominent Zurich-based lawyer, he was also recognized as a major collector of ancient art. The main focus of Pestalozzi's collection was the portrait, Greek but especially Roman. His inspiration to collect came in part from his ancestors, several of whom formed ancient coin collections already in the 18th and early 19th centuries, but also from his own education and extensive travels, in particular to Rome, where the superb portraits in the Capitoline Museum attracted his attention. Pestalozzi considered the scholar Professor Hans Jucker (1918-1984) his mentor and advisor, whose untimely death meant the task of publishing the ever-growing collection was left to his wife, Dr. Ines Jucker. Most but not all of the collection was published by her in two splendid volumes, Skulpturen der Antiken - Sammlung Ennetwies in 1995 and 2006. The name Ennetwies was chosen since that was the name of the Medieval village, now part of Zurich, where the collection was located. I first met Dr Pestalozzi in the mid-1990s shortly after his first acquisition at Christie’s. I can still recall my initial visit with him since I had no prior knowledge as to the extent of his collection and so was completely surprised by its depth, quality and focus. The collection was arranged roughly chronologically in a dedicated gallery space abutting his home. A visit to the collection would take about two hours as Pestalozzi would delight in sharing details about each portrait. I am grateful to his heirs for entrusting Christie’s with the sale of this important collection. G. Max Bernheimer
A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A GODDESS
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
11 3/8 in. (28.8 cm.) high
來源
Said to be from the collection of a German noble family.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg (Kunst der Antike 1, 1977, no. 6).
with Simone de Monbrison, Paris, acquired from the above.
Dr. Anton Pestalozzi (1915-2007), Zurich, acquired from the above, 1979; thence by descent to the current owner.
出版
I. Jucker, Skulpturen der Antiken-Sammlung Ennetwies, Mainz am Rhein, 1995, Band 1, p. 14, no. 3, pls. 3-4.
Arachne Online Database no. 1091309.
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Please note the additional provenance:

Said to be from the collection of a German noble family.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg (Kunst der Antike 1, 1977, no. 6).
with Simone de Monbrison, Paris, acquired from the above.
Dr. Anton Pestalozzi (1915-2007), Zurich, acquired from the above, 1979; thence by descent to the current owner.

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The goddess' large eyes and distant gaze recall Hellenistic royal portraiture (see for example a portrait of Arsinoe III from the Sarapeion at Alexandria, no. 758 in A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture). Jucker (op. cit.) writes that the present’s large, low-lying diadem and Praxitelian treatment of the hair indicate that a goddess is the intended subject of this head. Without further surviving attributes a precise identification is impossible, but a muse, nymph, Hygeia or Artemis are possible candidates.

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