Über das Lot Chargen- 46
Titel : A MARBLE SARCOPHAGUS RELIEF PANEL OF THE MUSES, 2ND THIRD OF THE 3RD CENTURY A.D.
Herkunft : said to have been found along the Via AppiaBartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716-1799), Rome, as of 1768Thomas Jenkins (1722-1798), Rome, acquired from the above circa 1771Sir William Petty Fitzmaurice (1737-1805), 2nd Earl of Shelburne and later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Lansdowne House, acquired from the above in 1771by descent to Henry Petty Fitzmaurice (1872-1936), 6th Marquess of Lansdowne (Christie, Manson & Woods, London, Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Ancient Marbles the Property of the Most Honourable The Marquess of Lansdowne, March 5 th, 1930, no. 65)The Property of the Most Hon. The Marquess of Lansdowne, P.C., Bowood, Wiltshire (Sotheby's, London, December 4th, 1972, no. 121, illus.)Fallani, Rome, 1974private collection, São Paulo, BrazilChristie's, New York, December 18th, 1998, no. 278, illus.
Literature : Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Raccolta d'antiche statue ed oltre sculture antiche restaurate dal Cav. B.C., vol. II, Rome, 1768, pl. 58,1 ("presso di me di vendersi")"Lord Shelburne's Bill for 55 Antiquities Purchased through Thomas Jenkins in 1771" (Lansdowne MSS: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1930 sale catalogue, p. 106)G.F. Waagen, Art Treasures in Great Britain, vol. II, London, 1854, p. 150K.O. Müller, Amalthea oder Museum der Kunstmythologie und bildenden Altertumskunde, vol. III, Leipzig, 1820-5, p. 248E. Gerhard, Archäologische Zeitung, vol. 1, 1843, p. 116Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 58, no. 75A.H. Smith, Ancient Marbles at Lansdowne House, p. 458Cornelius C. Vermeule, "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 59, 1955, p. 131, no. 75 (65)Max Wegner, Die Musensarkophage (ASR V 3), Berlin, 1966, p. 20, no. 36, pl. 31bArt at Auction. The Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1972/1973, 1973, p. 233Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, neg. nos. 1974.276-278Walter Nikolaus Schumacher, Hirt und 'Guter Hirt,' 1977, p. 138Marburger Winckwelmann-Programm, 1981, pp. 58-59L. Paduano Faedo, "Sarcofagi romani con Muse," in Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, vol. XII, 2, Berlin, 1981, pp. 65-155, passimGuntram Koch and Hellmut Sichtermann, Römische Sarkophage, Munich, 1982, p. 199Jonathan Scott, The Pleasures of Antiquity: British Collectors of Greece and Rome, New Haven, 2003, p. 166, fig. 129Arachne. Datenbank und Kulturelle Archive des Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik Köln, no. 51143
Anmerkung : The Lansdowne example is the only sarcophagus panel featuring the god Hermes accompanying the Muses. According to Koch and Sichtermann (op. cit. p. 199) both the present panel and a Muse sarcophagus in the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Rome(Wegner, op. cit., pl. 37a) are likely to belong to the same group as three other Muse sarcophagi which Klaus Fittschen attributed to a single workshop (Gnomon, vol. 44, 1972, pp. 497 and 502): one is in the Villa Medici, Rome, another at San Simeon, California (Wegner, op. cit., pls. 27a and 31, respectively), and another was once in the collection of Giuseppe Scalambrini (Catalogo della Collezione Scalambrini di Roma, Vendite, Rome, 1888, p. 137, no. 1399, pl. 9).
Photo two from Bartalomeo Cavaceppi, Raccolta d'antiche statue..., vol. II, Rome, 1768, pl. 58.1.
Photo three shows the Ballroom at Landsdowne House, London, 1921, showing lots 45 and 46. The garland sarcophagus panel on the left, as well as the statue of Leda directly below it, are now in the Getty Museum in Malibu. The group of Eros and Psyche on the right is in the San Antonio Museum of Art. The Egyptian head above the fireplace is in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. (Reproduced by permission of English Heritage NMR).
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