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Deaccessioned at Christie's London, Mougins Museum of Classical Art sale, 7th December 2023. The features of the goddess, a portrait, suggest she was a woman of high status. Her finer details include centrally parted wavy hair bound in a plait at the back and surmounted by a mural crown of three towers each with an arched opening; spiral locks of hair fall down her neck. Probably also a personification of a city, possibly Rome, the head sits on a 17th century bust of Egyptian alabaster and Italian Porta Santa marble with a plinth of Bianco e Nero marble.

h. 82.5 x w. 50 x d. 22 cm

Roman head inserted into a 17th century bust

Marble, Alabaster

Provenance

Pope Urban VIII (Cardinal Maffeo Barberini), reigned 1623-1644, Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, Rome
Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1607-1671), Palazzo Barberini, Rome, (1644 Inventory, no. 663, mentionned as ‘Una testa di cybele, con la testa coronata di torri, con suo petto di porta santa, e camiscia di alabastro, e suo depuccio di bianco e nero, con scabellone di marmo bigio’.)
Cardinal Carlo Barberini (1630-1704), Casino al Bastione/Villa de Bastioni, Rome, (1663 Inventory, no. 682)
Prince Maffeo Barberini (1631-1685), Rome, (After-1672 Inventory, no. 663)
Prince Maffeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra (d.1849), Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, by inheritance in 1810/1811
Princess Carolina Sciarra, born D'Andrea Dei Marchesi di Pescopagano (d. 1913), Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, seen by F. Matz in 1867-1870
Consigned to Sotheby's New York by the heir of the above, New York, 7th June 2007
Sotheby's New York, Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities, including Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, 7th June 2007
Acquired at Rupert Wace, London, 9th September 2009

Publications

F. Matz and F. von Duhn, Antike Bildwerke in Rom mit Ausschluss der grösseren Sammlungen, Leipzig, 1881, vol. I, n°918
M. Aronberg Lavin, Seventeenth Century Barberini Documents and Inventories, New York, New York, 1975, pp. 181, 324, 390 and 575
C. Pietrangeli, Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, 1986, p. 368, no. 38.
Sotheby's New York, Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asiatic Antiquities, including Property of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, 7th June 2007, lot 71
J. Pollini, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 83, fig. 17
Egypte Ancienne, May/June/July 2013, no. 8, p. 67
J. Oorthuys, Ancient Warfare, Karwansaray Publishers, The Netherlands, April/May 2019, vol XII, issue 6, p. 59
in J. Oorthuys (ed.), Ancient History, Karwansaray Publishers, Jun/Jul 2020, no. 28, p. 59

Exhibitions

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

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