Currently not on view

Portrait of a man, recarved from an anta capital

y1953-25

Information

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
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

<em>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...</em>, (Évreux: Impr. de C. Hérissey, 1905).

6920 1905
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774286

"Acquisitions," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</em> 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",<em> American journal of archaeology</em> 59, no. 4 (Oct., 1955): p. 349-351., p. 350

6923 1955
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3809022

<p><em>The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection</em> (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)</p>, 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", <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society</em> 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'",<em> Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome</em> 42 (1997): p. 117-148., p. 118, figs. 1-2

2808 1997
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/633525675

Sheramy D. Bundrick; Eric R. Varner,<em> From Caligula to Constantine: tyranny and transformation in Roman portraiture</em>, (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., <em>Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, </em>(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., <em>Ägypten Griechenland Rom: Abwehr und Berührun: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, 26. November 2005 - 26. Februar 2006</em>, (Frankfurt: Das Städel, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie; Tübingen: Wasmuth, 2005). , p. 709-710; cat. no. 320

2807 2005