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Buste d'empereur romain, tête de marbre blanc et drapé polychrome

Le visage, d'un marbre blanc presque mat, sort d'un drapé de pierres de couleur comme d'une vague immobile. La chevelure courte se roule en boucles serrées au-dessus d'un front lisse et de traits jeunes, et les yeux, sans pupilles, fixent le lointain. Autour du cou, le manteau s'enroule en plis lourds où se succèdent le rouge sang, l'orangé, le jaune, le vert sombre et le gris, chaque pierre avec son veinage propre. L'ensemble repose sur un piédouche tourné de marbre noir veiné de blanc.

L'association d'une tête de marbre blanc et d'un buste en marbres de couleur a ses précédents. Le Louvre conserve ainsi un empereur romain sculpté en Italie au XVIIIe siècle, peut-être Antonin le Pieux, dont la cuirasse et la draperie sont taillées dans des pierres colorées. Des marchands rattachent ce type au goût du Grand Tour, ce voyage d'éducation qui conduisit en Italie, d'environ 1660 aux années 1840, de jeunes Européens fortunés revenus chargés de marbres et de reproductions. Les datations proposées pour de tels bustes s'étendent jusqu'au XXe siècle ; l'empereur représenté ici n'est pas nommé.

Époque
XIXe siècle, selon la fiche
Matière
Marbre polychrome, selon la fiche
Sujet
Empereur romain, selon la fiche
Style
Rome et Grèce antique, selon la fiche
Dimensions
Largeur 50 cm, hauteur 67 cm, selon la fiche
État
En l'état, selon la fiche
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The face, in an almost matt white marble, rises from a drapery of coloured stones like a wave held still. Short hair rolls in tight curls above a smooth brow and youthful features, and the eyes, without pupils, gaze into the distance. Around the neck the mantle wraps in heavy folds where blood red, orange, yellow, dark green and grey follow one another, each stone with its own veining. The whole rests on a turned socle of black marble veined with white.

Pairing a white marble head with a bust in coloured marbles has its precedents. The Louvre holds a Roman emperor carved in Italy in the eighteenth century, perhaps Antoninus Pius, whose armour and drapery are cut from coloured stones. Dealers link the type to the taste of the Grand Tour, the educational journey that took young, wealthy Europeans to Italy from about 1660 to the 1840s and sent them home with marbles and reproductions. Proposed dates for such busts reach into the twentieth century; the emperor shown here is not named.

Sources and points to validate
  • Le Louvre conserve un buste d'empereur romain (Antonin le Pieux ?), Italie, XVIIIe siècle, tête en marbre blanc et cuirasse et draperie en marbres de couleur. https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010089825
  • Le Grand Tour, voyage d'éducation de jeunes Européens fortunés, s'étend d'environ 1660 aux années 1840 ; les voyageurs rapportent d'Italie des sculptures en marbre et des reproductions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour
  • Des marchands décrivent des bustes d'empereurs romains en marbre polychrome dans le goût du Grand Tour, datés du XIXe siècle et de la première moitié du XXe siècle. https://www.proantic.com/1778355-buste-d039empereur-romain-en-marbre-polychrome-premiere-moitie-du-xxe-siecle.html ; https://www.proantic.com/1741537-buste-en-marbre-de-l039empereur-romain-auguste-xixe-siecle-ecole-anglaise.html
To be validated
  • Empereur représenté, atelier, pays de fabrication, modèle antique éventuel et marbres employés non renseignés ; la fiche n'atteste ni copie d'après l'antique ni reprise d'un modèle précis.
  • Datation XIXe siècle publiée par la galerie, non documentée ; des bustes semblables sont donnés du XVIIIe au XXe siècle par les sources.
  • Restaurations, collages, socle et unité des cotes (lue en centimètres) non renseignés ; état en l'état.

Notice drafted with the assistance of AI based on the dealer’s listing and cited public sources. Attributions and dating are subject to validation.

Buste en marbre polychrome représentant un empereur romain, XIXe siècle.

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