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拍品专文
This large and impressive solid-cast bronze figure depicts Jupiter nude, with robust musculature, standing with his right arm raised and his left hand lowered. In his right he must have originally held a scepter, while in his left the thunderbolt. He has thick wavy hair and a full beard divided at the chin. His eyes are inlaid in silver and his nipples are overlaid in copper. For a related example of similar scale, style and pose in Lugdunum, Musée et Théâtrés Romains, see S. Boucher, Recherches sur les bronzes figurés de Gaule pré-romaine et romaine, p. 141, fig. 243, pl. 52.
John Kluge (1914-2010) was a German-American entrepreneur who was the primary shareholder of Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation, later renamed Metromedia, the successor of the Dumont Television Network. Kluge was a notable collector of ancient art, primarily of works in bronze, and a large portion of his collection was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the 1996 show From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection. While the majority of his antiquities were displayed at his homes in Charlottesville, known as Morven, and Palm Beach, this bronze was brought by him to his home in the south of France, presumably because of its Gallo-Roman origins.
John Kluge (1914-2010) was a German-American entrepreneur who was the primary shareholder of Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation, later renamed Metromedia, the successor of the Dumont Television Network. Kluge was a notable collector of ancient art, primarily of works in bronze, and a large portion of his collection was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the 1996 show From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection. While the majority of his antiquities were displayed at his homes in Charlottesville, known as Morven, and Palm Beach, this bronze was brought by him to his home in the south of France, presumably because of its Gallo-Roman origins.