id: 110924
accession number: 1929.439
share license status: CC0
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Togatus Figure, AD 1-200. Italy, Roman. Pentelic marble; overall: 167.7 x 63.5 x 40.6 cm (66 x 25 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.439
title: Togatus Figure
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creation date: AD 1-200
creation date earliest: 1
creation date latest: 200
current location:
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Italy, Roman
technique: pentelic marble
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Roman
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 167.7 x 63.5 x 40.6 cm (66 x 25 x 16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twain Shall Meet
opening date: 1985-10-30T04:00:00
The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
title: Stories From Storage
opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00
Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Piero Tozzi Gallery, Florence, Italy, sold to Brummer Gallery
date: ?-1928
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Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1928-1929
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1929-
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fun fact:
This body once included a separately made head and arms.
digital description:
From 1929 until 1973, this toga-clad body was displayed with a portrait head of Vespasian (recarved from Nero) that did not originally belong to it. Several details indicate a mismatch: the surfaces and proportions differ, and the head projected awkwardly forward even after modern recarving of the neck to fit into the body cavity. Aspects of the toga also suggest that it was sculpted later than the head.
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RELATED WORKS
id: 111518
Portrait Head of Emperor Vespasian, Recut from Head of Nero, AD 64-79. Italy, Roman. Marble; overall: 40 x 21.6 x 24.9 cm (15 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.998
relationship:
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CITATIONS
The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
page number: P5615
url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/32950
R. H. "The Portrait of a Roman Statesman." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 8 (1929): 139-41.
page number:
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137236
"Roman Honesty," Art Digest. [New York] (Mid October 1929).
page number: p. 19
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"Cleveland Gets Roman Statue" ARTnews. [New York, etc.] (October 19, 1929).
page number: pp. 1, 13
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Bieber, Margarete. "Roman Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America (April 1944).
page number: pp. 77, fig. 11
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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. 40
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n22
Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.11-12
url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n15
Pollini, John. "Damnatio Memoriae in Stone: Two Portraits of Nero Recut to Vespasian in American Museums." American Journal of Archaeology 88, no. 4 (1984): 547-55.
page number: p. 548-49, Footnotes 15-17
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/504743
Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.
page number: Reproduced: p. 333, fig. 11
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914
Merchán García, María José. Écija: (Provincia de Sevilla, Hispania Ulterior Baetica). Thesis (Revised). Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Tarragona: ICAC, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, 2015. p. 107
page number: Mentioned: p. 107
url:
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