Inv. n°: MMoCA68

Roman Marble Head of a Satyr

With expressive, portrait-like features, wearing a wreath of grain, the base of the neck rounded for insertion into a statue body or bust.

h. 31 cm

2nd half of 2nd century AD

Marble

Provenance

  • Ex private collection of Jean-Marie Talleux (b. 1930), Grand Fort Philippe, France, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s, collection began in 1930s
  • Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries at Pierre Bergé Sale, Collection Jean-Marie Talleux, Paris, 6-7 December 1995, lot 143
  • Consigned by Royal-Athena Galleries to Pierre Bergé Antiquities Sale, 27-28 October 2006, lot 394
  • Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, 22nd October 2008, TPQ140S

Publications

  • J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 1994, vol. V, no. 26
  • Pierre Bergé, Collection Jean-Marie Talleux, Paris, 6-7 December 1995, p. 30, lot 143
  • J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 1997, vol. VIII, p. 5, fig. 14
  • J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2004, vol. XV, p. 12, fig. 26
  • Pierre Bergé, Antiquities Sale, 27-28 October 2006, p. 93, lot 394
  • J. Pollini, "Roman Marble Sculpture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 101, fig.54

Exhibitions

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

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