A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A MAN, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A MAN, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

turned to his right, with parted lips, the hair composed of sickle-shaped locks; no restorations.
Height 11 cm. Height of head from chin to crown 9 cm.

Condition Report:
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Provenance:
acquired by Paul Arndt prior to 1907 for Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914), Valby, Copenhagen

Hruby Collection, Vienna, acquired in the late 1950s from the Austrian collector and dealer H. Görner, Vienna (Bonhams, September 30th, 2015, no. 47, illus.)

Recorded

four photographs in the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/828539, http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/828540, http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/marbilderbestand/828541

Published

Carl Jacobsen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Fortegnelse over de antike Kunstværker, Copenhagen, 1907, p. 130, no. 353

Paul Arndt and Georg Lippold, Text for no. 2236/37 of Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Sculpturen, Munich, 1914

Domenico Mustilli, Il Museo Mussolini, Roma, 1939, p. 123, no. 11,15

Frederik Poulsen, Catalogue of Ancient Sculpture in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1951, p. 244, no. 353 ("had already disappeared before the collection was moved in from Valby")

Georg Lippold, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, vol. III.2, Berlin, 1956, p. 435

Hans v. Steuben, "Kopf des polykletischen Herakles," Antike Plastik, vol. 7, Berlin, 1967, p. 102, no. 15

Paul Zanker, Klassizistische Statuen, Mainz, 1974, p. 19, note 132

Detlev Kreikenbom, Bildwerke nach Polyklet, Berlin, 1990, p. 187, no. IVa8