On view
Ancient Mediterranean Art
Portrait of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius,
ca. 170–180
Roman
Antonine Period, 138–193 CE
y1958-1
Information
Title
Portrait of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Dates
ca. 170–180
Medium
Carrara marble
Dimensions
with restored nose: 34.1 × 27.9 × 26.8 cm (13 7/16 × 11 × 10 9/16 in.)
face: 19.5 cm (7 11/16 in.)
base: 14 × 22.1 × 22.1 cm (5 1/2 × 8 11/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
y1958-1
Period
Type
Materials
Said to have been in an English private collection; purchased from Mathias Komor, New York, in 1958.
- Frances Follin Jones, "Recent acquisitions of ancient art", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 17, no. 2 (1958): p. 46-54., fig. 3, p. 53 (illus.)
- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 40
- C.C. Vermeule, "A Graeco-Roman portrait of the third century A.D. and the Graeco-Asiatic tradition in imperial portraiture from Gallienus to Diocletian", Dumbarton Oaks Papers 15 (1961): p. 1-22., p. 8-9; fig. 18
- "The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 24-32., p. 24
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 100 (illus.)
- Pub. A.P. Kozloff, "The Cleveland Bronze: the emperor as philosopher", Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 3 (Mar., 1987): p. 84-99., p. 87, fig. 4
- J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., p. 374-376; cat. no. 161
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 58-59 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 58
