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Marble over life-size portrait bust of emperor Lucius Verus, wearing a cuirass (breast-plate and back-plate) and a paludamentum (cloak), fastened by a fibula (brooch) on his right shoulder.

h. 99.5 x w. 67.5 cm

second half of the 2nd century AD

Marble

Provenance

Acquired by the artist Jean Martin-Roch (1905-1991) from the antiquarian Raphaël Chiappetta in Aix-en-Provence, France, early 1960’s
Kept at the Abbaye de Pierredon, Mouries, France, property of Jean Martin-Roch
Thence by descent after the death of his widow, Claire Fontana, in 1999
Consigned to and sold by Maître Holz, auctionneer in Arles, in 2000/2001 on the occasion of the Martin-Roch family succession
Acquired by Kevin Delahunty, antiquities dealer, in the South of France
Acquired by Tomasso Brothers, Leeds, UK, from the above
Galerie Chenel, Paris, May 2002
Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, from the above, 2002
Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, Item COPQ01, 11th June 2008

Publications

J. M. Eisenberg, in Royal-Athena Galleries (ed.), Art of the Ancient World, 2004, vol. XV, p. 15, fig. 31
Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology Magazine, May/June 2004, vol. 15, p. 64
Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology Magazine, March/April 2011, vol. 22, front cover and p. 38, fig. 5
J. Pollini, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 100, fig. 51
M. Merrony, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins. La Collection Famille Levett, France, 1st January 2012, p. 59
Ancient Warfare The Netherlands, Karwansaray Publishers, 1st January 2013, p. 8, vol. VI, Issue 5
La marche de l’Histoire, 2013, no. 4, p. 18
Égypte Ancienne, May/June/July 2013, no. 8, p. 69

Exhibitions

Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Marble Bust of Roman Emperor Lucius Verus

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