Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part II

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A Roman Marble Torso of a Boy or Eros, circa 2nd Century A.D.

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Lot Closed

December 8, 05:04 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Roman Marble Torso of a Boy or Eros

circa 2nd Century A.D.


leaning against a tree trunk with the weight on his left leg, and wearing a mantle draped over the support, stretched across his back, and once passing over his left arm, the right arm formerly raised to the head, a small hole on the left hip for a lost metal attachment, the right arm repaired in antiquity; no restorations.

Height 42 cm.

European private collection, circa late 19th Century (based on socle and mounting technique)
French private collection, acquired in the 1970s
Drouot, Paris, Millon, June 14th, 2021, no. 14, illus.
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
The present torso belongs to a Greek statuary type known in several Roman replicas. A replica with unbroken head is in Rome, Villa Borghese: Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Sculpturen no. 2733 (arachne.dainst.org/entity/1075541). For other replicas see a torso in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano (A. Giuliano, ed., Museo Nazionale Romano. Le sculture, vol. I.2, 1981, p. 340f., no. 43), and a torso sold at Christie’s, New York, December 10th, 2004, no. 575. The aforementioned replicas in Rome have a cord bound around the hips; the hole on the left hip of the present torso suggests that such a cord was added in metal. The Greek original appears to have been created in the early Hellenistic period. It has been suggested that the type represents a figure of Eros tied and bound in punishment for his misdeeds.

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