Torso of a Statue Wearing a Hip Mantle
Artist
Unknown
Date1st century
MediumMarble
Dimensions56 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (143.5 x 74.9 x 39.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object number86.4
On View
On viewProvenanceAcquired by Lord Astor in Italy in 1880s; sale, Sotheby's London, at Hever Castle, Kent, England, 1982; with McAlpine Ancient Art, 1982; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes, Winston-Salem, NC, 1983; given to NCMA, 1986.
Published ReferencesG. Aston, Statuary and Sculpture at Hever (Ipswich, 1969), 11-12.
"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1984), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) 11.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 28.
Daphne Athas, "Roman Torso," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 10-12, illus. (color) 10.
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Torso of an Emperor in the Guise of Jupiter, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 34, illus. (color).
Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Torso of an Emperor in the Guise of Jupiter, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 68, illus. (color) 69.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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