Male portrait
Bronze.
Mid-5th century BCE.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum (?)

Male portrait.

Bronze.
Mid-5th century BCE.

Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum (?)
(Санкт-Петербург, Государственный Эрмитаж).

Private collection.
Origin:
According to legend, acquired in Italy in the beginning of the 19th century and kept in a private collection in St. Petersburg. In the autumn of 1918 it was acquired by O. E. Braz, whose collection was nationalized after his arrest in 1924. The subsequent fate of the head is unknown.
Description:
Credits:
© 1921. Waldhauer O. F. Etjudy po istorii antichnogo portreta. Part I, tabl. I. Ezhegodnik Rossijskogo Instituta Istorii Iskusstv, t. I, vyp. I. Peterburg, 1921.
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