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LOT 0383
Life Size Marble Julian Style Bust
18TH CENTURY A.D.
26 3/4 in. (33 kg total, 68 cm including stand).
Carved in the round, displaying an emperor or noble with thick hair cut in the Julian style and combed forward onto the brow; with finely-modelled features and stern expression; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceAcquired on the German art market.
European private collection, 1970s-early 2000s.
Acquired from the above; thence by descent.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12791-234562.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. British Museum, London, inv.no.1805.0703.93, in Thorsten, O., Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, London, 2008, p.13, for an original Roman portrait of Trajan.
FootnotesThe bust is characteristic of the taste that prevailed in France since the Italian wars of Napoleon. The quality of the carving is high and stylistically recalls the school of Antonio Canova.
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