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Lot Essay
This portrait depicts a young man with delicate features, beardless, with short hair arranged in comma-shaped locks which were characteristic of the hairstyle of men during the Julio-Claudian period.
This example is close to portraits of the young Germanicus Julius Caesar (15 B.C.-19 A.D.) who was the son of Drusus Major and Antonia Minor and the brother of Claudius, who later became Emperor. The coiffure is also close to portraits of the young Gaius Caesar (20 B.C.-4 A.D.) grandson and heir to the throne of the Roman emperor Augustus, alongside his younger brother Lucius Caesar, see inv. no. Ma 3517 at the Louvre Museum in K. de Kersauson, Catalogue des portraits romains. Tome I, 1986, Paris, pp. 108-109, no. 48.
For another example of a portrait of a youth from this period with distinctive hairdo, in the fashion of the hugely popular Germanicus, see acc. no. 59.148.154 in the National Museums Liverpool, World Museum, in J. Fejfer, The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture. Volume I - the Portraits. Part 2: The Roman Male Portraits, 1997, p. 34, pls 13-14.
This example is close to portraits of the young Germanicus Julius Caesar (15 B.C.-19 A.D.) who was the son of Drusus Major and Antonia Minor and the brother of Claudius, who later became Emperor. The coiffure is also close to portraits of the young Gaius Caesar (20 B.C.-4 A.D.) grandson and heir to the throne of the Roman emperor Augustus, alongside his younger brother Lucius Caesar, see inv. no. Ma 3517 at the Louvre Museum in K. de Kersauson, Catalogue des portraits romains. Tome I, 1986, Paris, pp. 108-109, no. 48.
For another example of a portrait of a youth from this period with distinctive hairdo, in the fashion of the hugely popular Germanicus, see acc. no. 59.148.154 in the National Museums Liverpool, World Museum, in J. Fejfer, The Ince Blundell Collection of Classical Sculpture. Volume I - the Portraits. Part 2: The Roman Male Portraits, 1997, p. 34, pls 13-14.