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Portrait of a man, recarved from an anta capital

y1953-25

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Object Number

y1953-25

Medium

Grayish brown, coarsely crystalline marble

Dates

ca. 79–96 A.D.

Dimensions

37.7 × 22.6 × 22.2 cm (14 13/16 × 8 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.) face: h. 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.) base: 17.4 × 16.7 × 16.6 cm (6 7/8 × 6 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

Culture

Roman

Credit Line

Museum purchase, The Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection

Type

sculpture

Subject

portraits, figures (representations), men, capitals

Materials

marble

Believed to have been in the collection of Col. Morgan, a cousin of J.P. Morgan, Pulborough, Sussex.; purchased from Mathias Komor, New York. in 1953.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1628117

Antiquités égyptiennes, grecques et romaines, appartenant à P. Philip et à divers amateurs: sculptures, peintures, bronzes, étoffes, faiences, figures de Tanagra, verres irisés, dont la vente aura lieu les 10, 11 et 12 avril 1905, à l'hôtel Drouot..., (Évreux: Impr. de C. Hérissey, 1905).

6920 1905

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774286

"Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 13, no. 2, (1954): p. 62-63., p. 62

848 1954

https://www.jstor.org/stable/500818

Cornelius Vermeule, "[Reviewed Work]: Opuscula romana. vol. I", American journal of archaeology 59, no. 4 (Oct., 1955): p. 349-351., p. 350

6923 1955

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3809022

The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956), no. 26 (illus.)

1824 1956

https://www.jstor.org/stable/985890

Cornelius C. Vermeule, "Greek and Roman portraits in North American collections open to the public", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, no. 2 (1964): p. 99-134., p. 99-134

1886 1964

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4238749

Dale Kinney, "'Spolia, damnatio' and 'renovatio memoriae'", Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 42 (1997): p. 117-148., p. 118, figs. 1-2

2808 1997

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/633525675

Sheramy D. Bundrick; Eric R. Varner, From Caligula to Constantine: tyranny and transformation in Roman portraiture, (Atlanta, GA: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2001). , p. 224-225; cat. no. 59

2265 2001

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47868668

J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., cat. no. 94

2140 2001

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62701093

Herbert Beck, Peter C. Bol and Maraike Bückling, eds., Ägypten Griechenland Rom: Abwehr und Berührun: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, 26. November 2005 - 26. Februar 2006, (Frankfurt: Das Städel, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie; Tübingen: Wasmuth, 2005). , p. 709-710; cat. no. 320

2807 2005