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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 16, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Ancient Egyptian Sculpture & Works of Art | 62 | $****** - ****** | A Marble Marine Sarcophagus |
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198.1 x 55.9 x 55.9 cm (78 x 22 x 22 in)
church of Santi Giovanni e Paulo, Monte Celio, Rome, circa 1560/1565 (wherein seen and partially drawn by Giovannantonio Dosio)
Villa Giustiniani, Rome, late 18th Century (wherein seen and described by Georg Zoega)
Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome, 1870s (wherein seen and described by Friedrich Matz and drawn by Ernst Eichler)
acquired by the present owner’s late parents
1811 inventory of the Palazzo Giustiniani (Angela Gallottini, Le sculture della collezione Giustiniani I. Documenti, Rome, 1998, p. 272, as no. 279).
Galleria Giustiniana, vol. II, Rome, circa 1640, pl. 98
Georg Zoega, Manuscript Apparatus to the Bassirilievi di Roma, Royal Library, Copenhagen, fol. 299
Karl O. Müller, Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst, 3rd ed., Breslau, 1848, p. 655
Otto Jahn, “Über ein Marmorrelief der Glyptothek in München,” Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich-Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 1854, p. 182, note 101, and p. 190, note 148
Otto Jahn, Entführung der Europa auf antiken Kunstwerken (Denkschriften. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, vol. 19), Vienna, 1870, p. 51, note 4
Friedrich Matz and Friedrich von Duhn, Antike Bildwerke in Rom, vol. 2, mit Ausschluss der grösseren Sammlungen, Leipzig, 1881, p. 379, no. 3197
Friedrich R. Dressler, Triton und die Tritonen in der Litteratur und Kunst der Griechen und Römer, vol. 2, Wurzen, 1893, p. 14, no. 19
Christian Hülsen, Das Skizzenbuch des Giovannantonio Dosio im Staatlichen Kupferstichkabinett zu Berlin, Berlin, 1933, p. 59, note to fol. 3 (partial drawing of front panel, inscribed “A S[anti] Gio[vanni] et Paolo,” Staatsbibliothek Berlin, Ms. lat. Fol. 61n)
Andreas Rumpf, Die Meerwesen auf den antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, vol. V.1, Berlin, 1939, p. 27f., no. 71, figs. 40-41 (drawings by Eichler and Dosio), pl. 20 (early 20th-cent. photograph)
Angela Gallottini, op. cit., p. 69, fig. 22 (Galleria Giustiniana engraving)
the front carved in high relief with a portrait bust of a woman within in a shell flanked by two nereids riding sea-centaurs and two nereids grasping the neck of sea-bulls, erotes swimming beneath the shell and at both ends, and flying above the scene, each short side carved in shallow relief with an erote riding a sea creature, one a sea-horse, the other a sea-panther, no restorations.
