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PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY RELIEF
LATE REPUBLIC TO EARLY IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN MARBLE FUNERARY RELIEF
LATE REPUBLIC TO EARLY IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
55 1⁄8 in. (140 cm.) high
LATE REPUBLIC TO EARLY IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C.-EARLY 1ST CENTURY A.D.
55 1⁄8 in. (140 cm.) high
Provenance
Likely collected by Cardinal Felice Peretti (1521-1590), later Pope Sixtus V, Villa Montalto, Rome; thence by descent to his grand-nephews, Cardinal Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto (1571-1623) and Prince Michele Damasceni Peretti (1577-1631), Villa Montalto, Rome; thence by descent to Prince Michele Damasceni Peretti’s daughter, Maria Felice Peretti (1603-1650) and her husband, Bernardino Savelli (1606-1658), Villa Montalto, Rome; thence by descent to their son, Giulio Savelli (1626-1712), Villa Montalto, Rome.
Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Negroni (1629-1713), Rome, acquired from the above with the contents of the Villa Montalto, 1696, and renamed the Villa Negroni; thence by descent.
Giuseppe Staderini, Rome, acquired from the above with the contents of the Villa Negroni, 1784.
with Thomas Jenkins (1722-1798), Rome, acquired from the above, circa 1785-1786.
Baron Valentin Chodron de Courcel (1838-1917), Villa Faustina, Cannes, France, acquired by 1893; thence by descent.
Catalogue des Sculptures Grecques, Romaines et du Moyen Age… décorant les Jardins de la “Villa Faustina,” Mes. J. Baussy and R. Morot, Cannes, 27 November 1923, lot 53.
Private Collection, France; thence by descent to the current owner.
Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Negroni (1629-1713), Rome, acquired from the above with the contents of the Villa Montalto, 1696, and renamed the Villa Negroni; thence by descent.
Giuseppe Staderini, Rome, acquired from the above with the contents of the Villa Negroni, 1784.
with Thomas Jenkins (1722-1798), Rome, acquired from the above, circa 1785-1786.
Baron Valentin Chodron de Courcel (1838-1917), Villa Faustina, Cannes, France, acquired by 1893; thence by descent.
Catalogue des Sculptures Grecques, Romaines et du Moyen Age… décorant les Jardins de la “Villa Faustina,” Mes. J. Baussy and R. Morot, Cannes, 27 November 1923, lot 53.
Private Collection, France; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
V. Massimo, Notizie istoriche della Villa Massimo alle Terme Diocleziane: Con un'appendice di documenti, Rome, 1836, p. 165.
A. Michaelis, "La raccolta de Courcel a Cannes," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung, vol. 8, 1893, p. 174, no. 6.
T. Ashby, “Thomas Jenkins in Rome,” Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. 6, no. 8, 1913, p. 500, no. 1.
M.G. Barberini, “Villa Peretti Montalto Negroni Massimo alle Terme Diocleziane: la collezione di sculture,” in E. Debenedetti, ed., Collezionismo e ideologia: Mecenati, artisti e teorici dal classico al neoclassico, Rome, 1991, p. 24.
A. Seidel, Der Codex Montalto: Präsentation und Rezeption der Antikensammlung Peretti Montalto, Mainz, 2016, p. 186, fol. 222.
Recorded:
Codex Montalto, circa 1623-1631, fol. 222.
Inventario delle Statue, suppellettili ed altro esistenti nel Palazzo Peretti alle Terme, circa 1623-1631, Fondo Cardelli, n. 91, located on the scala (“staircase”) of the piano nobile (“main floor”) of the Villa Peretti Montalto, Palazzo a Termini, and described as “Doi figure insieme, Un console colla moglie di basso rillieuo, p.m1 7” (“Two figures together, a consul with his wife, in low relief, 7 palmi”).
Drawing attributed to Vincenzo Dolcibene, circa 1786, preserved in the British Museum, London (Inv. no. 2010,5006.1806).
Photograph by Jean Binot, 1908, preserved in Musée national des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris (Inv. no. PV0053418).
A. Michaelis, "La raccolta de Courcel a Cannes," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung, vol. 8, 1893, p. 174, no. 6.
T. Ashby, “Thomas Jenkins in Rome,” Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. 6, no. 8, 1913, p. 500, no. 1.
M.G. Barberini, “Villa Peretti Montalto Negroni Massimo alle Terme Diocleziane: la collezione di sculture,” in E. Debenedetti, ed., Collezionismo e ideologia: Mecenati, artisti e teorici dal classico al neoclassico, Rome, 1991, p. 24.
A. Seidel, Der Codex Montalto: Präsentation und Rezeption der Antikensammlung Peretti Montalto, Mainz, 2016, p. 186, fol. 222.
Recorded:
Codex Montalto, circa 1623-1631, fol. 222.
Inventario delle Statue, suppellettili ed altro esistenti nel Palazzo Peretti alle Terme, circa 1623-1631, Fondo Cardelli, n. 91, located on the scala (“staircase”) of the piano nobile (“main floor”) of the Villa Peretti Montalto, Palazzo a Termini, and described as “Doi figure insieme, Un console colla moglie di basso rillieuo, p.m1 7” (“Two figures together, a consul with his wife, in low relief, 7 palmi”).
Drawing attributed to Vincenzo Dolcibene, circa 1786, preserved in the British Museum, London (Inv. no. 2010,5006.1806).
Photograph by Jean Binot, 1908, preserved in Musée national des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Paris (Inv. no. PV0053418).
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