Lot 36
Lot 36
PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION
A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A MAN

LATE REPUBLICAN, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Price Realised GBP 200,000
Estimate
GBP 80,000 - GBP 120,000
Closed: 27 Jul 2020
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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A MAN

LATE REPUBLICAN, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

Price Realised GBP 200,000
Closed: 27 Jul 2020
Price Realised GBP 200,000
Closed: 27 Jul 2020
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1538 in. (39.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Elie Volpi (1858-1938) collection, Florence.
Vente de la Collection Elie Volpi, Hotel de Ventes Jandolo & Tavazzi, Florence, 25 April-3 May 1910, lot 651, pl. XCI.
Countess Luxburg collection, Munich, prior to 1931.
Baron Löffelholz collection, Munich.
Emil G. Bührle collection, Zurich, acquired from the above in 1952; thence by descent to present owner.
Literature
L. Curtius, "Physiognomik des römischen Porträts," Die Antike, Vol. 7/3, Berlin-Leipzig, 1931, p. 247, abb. 11-12.
L. Curtius, "Ikonographie Beiträge zum Porträt der römischen Republik und der julisch-claudischen Familie II. Gaius Julius Caesar," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 47, Munich, 1932, 212ff.
R. West, Römische Porträt-Plastik, Munich, 1933, p. 78, pl. 18, no. 72.
E. Boehringer, Der Caesar von Acireale, Stuttgart, 1933, p. 17, p. 44-46.
R. P. Hinks, "Recent Works on Roman Portrait-Sculpture," The Journal of Roman Studies , Vol. 25, 1935, pp. 90-91.
J. M. C. Toynbee, "Portraits of Julius Caesar," Greece and Rome, Vol. 4., Cambridge, 1957, pp.7-8.
R. Herbig, "Neue Studien zur Ikonographie des Gaius Julius Caesar," Kölner Jahrbuch für Vor-und Frühgeschichte, 4, 1959, pl. 41, 44.
J. Frel, "Caesar," The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 5., Malibu, 1977, p.62, no. 45.
F. S. Johansen, "The Portraits in Marble of Gaius Julius Caesar: A Review," Occasional Papers on Antiquities, 4: Ancient Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Vol 1., Malibu, 1978, p. 35, fig. 34a-b.
Arachne Online Database no. 2799360.
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