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Portrait of a youth

2nd - 3rd century AD

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Artist: Roman
Title: Portrait of a youth
Date: 2nd - 3rd century AD
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 22 13/16 x 18 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (58 x 46 x 34 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Kirk Edward Long
Accession Number: 2023.102.291

The provenance provided by the dealer is: excavated Tivoli (?) possibly by Gavin Hamilton; Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House (?); Robin Symes, London (by 1970); J.Paul Getty Museum (by 1971; deaccessioned 1977); Robin Symes, London; Douglas Fisher, London, from whom purchased in 1983However, what is verifiable is the record from Robin Symes though its purchase from Douglas Fisher in 1983
Burton B. Fredericksen, ed., The J. Paul Getty Museum: Greeks and Roman Antiquities... (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), p. 60 (possibly Mazarin collection); Cornelius Vermeule and Norman Neuerburg, Catalogue of the Ancient Art in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 1973), 30-31, cat. 63.

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