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Statue of a Boy
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Provenance
Found in the Il Rosaio de’ Padri Missionari vineyard outside Porta Portese in Rome in May 1827.
Formerly in the collection of the sculptor Leandro Biglioschi, Rome.
Acquired in 1840 by the Königliche Museen zu Berlin.
Sold in 1922 to Philip Lederer and Gümüschdjian, Berlin, and Reiling, Mainz, who jointly acquired it from the abovementioned museum.
Then in a German private collection, from 1953.
In a German private collection, by descent from the above.
Literature
Friedrich Tieck, Königliche Museen. Verzeichniss der antiken Bildhauerwerke, erlin, 1847, p. 19, no. 138.
Comte de Clarac, Musée de sculpture antique et moderne, Vol. 4, Paris, 1850, p. 192, no. 1577, pl. 677.
Alexander Conze, Königliche Museen zu Berlin. Verzeichniss der antiken Skulpturen, erlin, 1885, p. 89, no. 486.
Alexander Conze, Königliche Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der antiken Skulpturen, Berlin, 1891, p. 188f., no. 486, illus.
Klaus Fittschen and Johannes Bergemann (Eds), Katalog der Skulpturen der Sammlung Wallmoden , Munich, 2015, p. 63, note 3, Beilage 8c.
Exhibitions / Fairs
Exhibitions
- In Vino Veritas: The Visual Rhetoric of Wine
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