NEO-ATTIC, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE ARCHAISTIC RELIEF PANEL
NEO-ATTIC, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.
35 1⁄2 in. (90 cm.) wide

Provenance

with Etude Couturier-Nicolay, Paris, 1976.
Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva, acquired from the above; thence by descent to the present owner.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Popular in the late Hellenistic and Augustan era, Neo-Attic sculpture recalled the Archaic Greek tradition of the late 6th and early 5th Century B.C. For archaizing relief fragments, cf. C. C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, Berkeley, 1981, pp. 195-198. The 'Puddletown Relief', op.cit, p. 195, no. 161, and no. 163, both depict a procession of gods. In the above relief Zeus, followed by Hera, stands before Hebe pouring a libation. For others, cf. J. Stubbe Ostergaard, Imperial Rome, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1996, pp.174-175, nos 84-85.

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