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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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Roman Marble Head of a Satyr

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