Type: Limited edition prints
Size: 48cm x 33cm
Tirage: 50 copies
Α pencil drawing of a marble torso of an Emperor, Roman Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st Century A.D.
Probably representing Augustus, Tiberius, or Claudius.
Carved in two parts, standing with the weight on his right leg and wearing a tunic, leather corselet with fringed lappets falling at the waist and shoulders, bronze cuirass, and paludamentum falling from the left shoulder over the back and formerly over the extended left forearm.
The bronze breastplate decorated in relief on the chest with the god Sol emerging from the waters in a frontal quadriga and on the abdomen with two Victories flanking a trophy and hanging shields onto it, a large inverted palmette below with scrolling acanthus and rosettes on either side, the upper row of pteryges decorated with alternating feline heads above lotus flowers and addorsed rams' heads above palmettes, the lower row with alternating gorgoneia and palmettes, a bearded head interrupting the sequence on the right hip, the neck carved out for insertion of a portrait head. Height 110cm.
Sold through Antiquities sale at Sotheby’s 11/6/2010 for $7,362,500.
On loan from the Frederick J.Iseman Art Trust at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
