Inv. n°: MMoCA214

Sculpture of Hadrian

Deaccessioned from the Mougins Museum, Christies NY. Marble over life-size statue of emperor Hadrian which stood on the Villa Montatlo-Negroni-Massimi in Rome until the 4th Earl of Darnley, John Bligh, acquired it during a Frand Tour in the late 18th century fro his home in Kent, England - Cobham Hall. 18th century restorations.

h. 208 cm

2nd century AD

Marble

Provenance

  • Villa Monalto-Negroni-Massimi, Rome
  • Brought from Italy in the time of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (b. 30 1767; d. 17 March 1831) to Cobham Hall, Kent, England
  • Sotheby's, London, 23rd July 1957, lot 383
  • Purchased from the above by J. Wilson Raker, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Iberiabank, New Iberia, Louisiana, 1961, now headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana
  • Acquired at Christie's, New York, 9th December 2008, lot 164

Publications

  • Letter from Thomas Jenkins (antiquarian, 1722-1798) to Charles Townley (antiquarian and art collector, 1737-1810), 20th January 1787
  • Letter from Thomas Jenkins to Charles Townley, 29th May 1790
  • Lofts and Warner, Land agents & valuers, The Inventory and Valuation of the Property of Francis Bligh Earl of Darnley Deceased Taken for Estate Duty, London, June 1927, the statue of Hadrian is listed under the heading "Hall at the foot of the grand staircase"
  • Kent Photo Archive, Glass Plate Negative, Granite Staircase in Cobham Hall, 1940's/1950's
  • C. C. Vermeule, "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain", American Journal of Archaeology, April 1955, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 133, pl. 42, fig. 9
  • M. Wegner, Das Romische Herrscherbild: Hadrian, Plotina, Marciana, Matidia, Sabina, Berlin, 1956, no. II, vol. 3, p. 95
  • Sotheby's, Catalogue of the Valuable Contents, Pictures, Statuary, Furniture & Household Furnishings, etc., of Cobham Hall, near Rocherster, Kent, London, July 1957, lot 383
  • C. C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Scultpure in America, Malibu, 1981, p. 310, no. 266
  • Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, November/December 2008, vol. XIX, no. 6, advert
  • Christie's, Antiquities Sales, New York, 9th December 2008, lot 164, pp. 149-151
  • Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, March/April 2009, vol. XX, p. 41
  • I. Bignamini and C. Hornsby, Digging and Dealing In Eighteenth-Century Rome, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010, vol. 2, letter 314, Jenkins to Townley, 13 January 1787, pp. 171-172
  • Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, March/April 2011, vol. XXII, no. 2, 6
  • Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, May/June 2011, vol. XXII, no. 2, 51
  • "Mougins, un Musée d'Art Classique pas comme les autres", Exponaute, France, 13th July 2011
  • J. Pollini, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 91, fig. 33
  • in M. Merrony (ed.), Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins. La Collection Famille Levett, France, 2012, p. 57
  • La Marche de l'Histoire, 4th February 2013
  • Egypte Ancienne, May/June/July 2013, no. 8, pp. 67 and 69
  • C. Wrathall, "Collectors & Collections", Christie's Magazine, January/Feburary 2016
  • "How a Collector of Modern and Contemporary Art Got Switched on to Antiquities", Christie's online, 14th March 2016, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.christies.com/features/How-a-collector-of-Modern-and-Contemporary-Art-got-switched-on-to-Antiquities-7113-1.aspx
  • "A Head of Hadrian from a Private Art Collection on Show at Musée du Quai Branly", Following Hadrian blog, 9th March 2017, [On-line]. Available at: https://followinghadrian.com/2017/03/09/a-head-of-hadrian-from-a-private-art-collection-on-show-at-musee-du-quai-branly-in-paris/
  • Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, May/June 2017, p. 8, no. 1

Exhibitions

  • Cobham Hall, Kent, UK, c. 1890's to 1950's
  • IBERIABANK, New Iberia, Louisiana, USA, 1961 — 2008
  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, 2011 — 2019

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