Artworks

Roman head of a young boy, c.1st century AD

Roman head of a young boy, c.1st century AD

Marble

Height 19.5cm

9788

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A tender portrait of a young boy with short hair, brushed over his forehead, his eyes heavily lidded, small plump lips slightly parted to show the top teeth, and a narrow jaw, carved in white crystalline marble. The tip of the nose, both ears and a section of the proper right cheek restored in marble in the 18th or 19th century.

Provenance

Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, Scotland; acquired Rome 1820-1825, thence by descent
St. Louis Art Museum, USA; acquired from Charles Ede in 2019

Literature

Compare Eric M. Moorman, Ancient Sculpture in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2000), pl.32, no.72

Publications

Lord Kinnaird, Notes and Reminiscences of Rossie Priory (Dundee, 1877), no.27
Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge, 1882), p.651, no.27
Frederik Poulson, Greek and Roman Portraits in English Country Houses (Oxford, 1923), pp.55-56, no.31