Lot 132
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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUTH
A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUTH
A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUTH
A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUTH
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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUTH

LATE TRAJANIC - EARLY HADRIANIC PERIOD, CIRCA 120 A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A YOUTH
LATE TRAJANIC - EARLY HADRIANIC PERIOD, CIRCA 120 A.D.
13 ½ in. (34 cm.) high
Provenance
Swiss private collection, acquired in 1972.
Literature
G. Traversari, 'Ritratto maschile inedito, di epoca proto-adrianea appartenente ad una collezione privata romana', in Rivista di archeologia, Anno XXII, 1998, PP. 60-61, figs. 1-4.

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Lot Essay

This male portrait, turned slightly to the left, depicts a young man with a very delicate, heart shaped face, with arched brows and sensitive eyes. His hair is roughly carved at the back, leading into a high halo of deeply carved, thick individual 'snail' curls that arch over his forehead. His jaw has the beginnings of curly facial hair. For the same treatment of the curls on a portrait in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, see F. Johansen, Roman Portraits II, Copenhagen, 1995, p. 90, no. 32.

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