id: 110239 accession number: 1928.860 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.860 updated: 2023-04-29 11:09:52.482000 Portrait Bust of a Man, 27 BC-AD 14. Italy, Roman, Augustan period. Bronze; overall: 38.1 x 21.6 cm (15 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1928.860 title: Portrait Bust of a Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 27 BC-AD 14 creation date earliest: -27 creation date latest: 14 current location: 103 Roman creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Italy, Roman, Augustan period technique: bronze department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Roman type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 38.1 x 21.6 cm (15 x 8 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Master Bronzes from the Classical World opening date: 1967-12-04T05:00:00 Master Bronzes from the Classical World. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (organizer) (December 4, 1967-January 23, 1968); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (March 1-April 13, 1968); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (May 8-June 30, 1968). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections opening date: 1996-04-20T00:00:00 The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections. Harvard Art Museums (organizer) (April 20-August 11, 1996); The Toledo Museum of Art (October 13, 1996-January 5, 1997); Tampa Museum of Art (February 2-April 13, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: This portrait originally had inlaid eyes, probably in stone, glass, or ivory. digital description: The realistic features of this fine life-sized portrait include wrinkles in the forehead and beside each eye, and very naturalistic ears, protruding but not quite symmetrical. The stylized hair is neatly arranged and suggests a date in the Augustan period, although some scholars have seen it as late Republican. Likely once topping a shaft as a herm bust, the portrait’s subject—now unknown—would have been identified by an inscription. wall description: A fine example of the realistic portraiture of the Late Republican Period. In scattered areas the surface has been cleaned down to the metal base. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Howard, Rossiter. "Roman Portrait Head." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 7 (1928): 147-53. page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137138. Magoffin, R. V. D. Magic Spades ; the Romance of Archaeology. New York: Henry Holt, 1929. page number: P. 148. url: Bieber, Margarete. “Roman Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum.” Art in America 32 (April 1944): 65–83. page number: Pp. 70-71, fig. 4. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n22 Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned: p. 16; reproduced: back cover url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n19 Worcester Art Museum, and Michael Milkovich. Roman Portraits: [a Loan Exhibition of Roman Sculpture and Coins from the First Century B.C. Through the Fourth Century A.D., by Michael Milkovich, April 6-May 14, 1961]. [Worchester, Mass.]: [Worchester Art Museum], 1961. page number: P. 18, cat. 5. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n48 Mitten, David Gordon, and Suzannah F. Doeringer. Master Bronzes from the Classical World. [Mainz on Rhine, W. Ger.]: [Printed by P. von Zabern], 1967. page number: Pp. 234-235, cat. 228. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n46 William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, and T. Robert S. Broughton. Ancient Portraits: A Show of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Sculptured Portraits in Honor of the Seventieth Birthday of T.R.S. Broughton : Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 5-May 17, 1970. [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: [The Center], 1970. page number: Cat. 15. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 28 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n48 Balty, Jean Ch. "M. Junius Brutus: Stoicisme et révolte dans le portrait romain de la fin de la République," Bulletin de la classe de beaux-arts LXI (1979): 194-220. page number: Pll. 4, 6. url: Vermeule, Cornelius C. Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada. Malibu, Calif: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1981. page number: Pp. 284-285, cat. 241. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27 Mattusch, Carol C. The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996. page number: Pp. 322-325, cat. 47. url: Lahusen, Götz, and Edilberto Formigli. Römische Bildnisse aus Bronze: Kunst und Technik. München: Nirmer Verlag, 2001. page number: Pp. 110-111, cat. 56. url: Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 16 - 17 url: Daehner, Jens, and Kenneth D. S. Lapatin. Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World. Firenze : Giunti, 2015. page number: Mentioned: p. 181, note 43 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.860/1928.860_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.860/1928.860_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.860/1928.860_full.tif