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Portraiture | Roman Portraiture
1481. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of infant Nero.
Parian marble. Ca. 50 CE.
Inv. No. 57.9.
Paris, National Library of France.
1482. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Agrippina the Elder.
Marble.
37—41 CE (?).
Tunis.
Inv. No. 57.45.
Paris, National Library of France.
1483. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Agrippina the Elder.
Marble.
37—41 CE (?).
Tunis.
Inv. No. 57.45.
Paris, National Library of France.
1484. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Agrippina the Elder.
Marble.
37—41 CE (?).
Tunis.
Inv. No. 57.45.
Paris, National Library of France.
1485. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Nero Julius Caesar, the son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder.
Marble. 1st century, ca. 23 CE.
Tunis.
Inv. No. 57.237.
Paris, National Library of France.
1486. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Nero Julius Caesar, the son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (close-up).
Marble. 1st century, ca. 23 CE.
Tunis.
Inv. No. 57.237.
Paris, National Library of France.
1487. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Augustus.
Marble.
Roman work, 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 57.238.
Paris, National Library of France.
1488. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Augustus.
Marble.
Roman work, 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 57.238.
Paris, National Library of France.
1489. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Intaglio “Emperor Commodus hunting”.
Onyx nicolo. Rome, ca. 190 CE.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1490. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Bust of a Roman (Julius Caesar?).
Bronze.
Inv. Nos. bronze. 829 / Chab. 3119.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1491. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Bust of a Roman (Julius Caesar?).
Bronze.
Inv. Nos. bronze. 829 / Chab. 3119.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1492. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Two Agrippinae represented as Minervae”.
Sardonyx.
Rome, 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 226.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1493. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (“Big cameo of France”).
Sardonyx. 37 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1494. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (so-called “Great Cameo of France”).
Five-layered sardonyx. Ca. 23 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1495. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (so-called “Great Cameo of France”). The upper register.
Five-layered sardonyx.
Ca. 23 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1496. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Cameo of Tiberius” (so-called “Great Cameo of France”). The middle register.
Five-layered sardonyx.
Ca. 23 CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 264.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1497. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Apotheosis of Claudius”.
Attributed to Skylax.
Sardonyx. Mid-1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 265.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1498. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Claudius”.
Sardonyx. Rome, 41—42 CE.
Golden frame 16th century.
Inv. No. Camee. 269.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1499. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Claudius and Messalina on a chariot”.
Sardonyx. Rome, Mid-1st cent. CE.
Frame made by Josias Belle in 17th cent.
Inv. No. Camee. 276.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
1500. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Messalina with her children”.
Sardonyx. 40—42 CE.
Frame made in the 17th cent.
Inv. No. Camee. 277.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.