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FRAGMENT OF A FRESCO DEPICTING A MENAED
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FRAGMENT OF A FRESCO DEPICTING A MENAED
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
FRAGMENT OF A FRESCO DEPICTING A MENAED
Roman art, circa the 1st century AD
A fragment of a fresco depicting, against a black background, a dancing Maenad dressed in a diaphanous gown, carrying a jug on her shoulder—held in place by her left hand—and holding a thyrsus in her right hand. Above the female figure is a bucranium within a square frame from which two garlands of foliage emerge.
Restored.
Dimensions: 47 x 33 cm
Provenance: Former American private collection, acquired from the Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres gallery, Paris, in the 1970s
Bonhams, London, 29 April 2009: lot 29 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA274)
Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities sale, London, 29 April 2009, lot 29
M. Merrony, ‘Roman Mosaics’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 114, fig. 3
A Roman polychrome fresco fragment depicting a dancing Maenad,
circa 1st century AD.
See original version (French)
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Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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