Currently not on view
Portrait of Demosthenes, after a Greek original by Polyeuktos of ca. 280-279 B.C.,
ca. 80 CE
Roman
Copy after the original by: Polyeuctus, Greek, active 280 BCE
Copy after the original by: Polyeuctus, Greek, active 280 BCE
y1962-133
Information
Title
Portrait of Demosthenes, after a Greek original by Polyeuktos of ca. 280-279 B.C.
Dates
ca. 80 CE
Maker
Medium
White marble with medium-sized crystals
Dimensions
preserved: 34.9 x 21.5 x 21. cm (13 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Sampson, Class of 1914, for the Alden Sampson Collection
Object Number
y1962-133
Period
Type
Materials
Subject
Given to the Museum by Edward Sampson
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- G. M. A. Richter, Greek portraits: a study of their development, (Berchem-Bruxelles: Latomus, revue d’études latines, 1955-)., p. 36, figs. 27-28.
- F. F. Jones, "Six pieces of Sculpture", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 21, no. 2 (1962): p. 46-55., p. 50, figs. 7-9, p. 50 (illus.)
- Antal Hekler, Bildnisse berühmter Griechen, 3d ed. (Berlin; Mainz: Florian Kupferberg, 1962). , p. 65; cat. no. 44
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 22, no. 1 (1963): p. 15-19., p. 15
- Cornelius C. Vermeule, "Greek and Roman portraits in North American collections open to the public", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, no. 2 (1964): p. 99-134., p. 116.
- Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, The portraits of the Greeks, (London: Phaidon Press, 1965)., Vol. 2: no. 47, p. 221; figs. 1468-70.
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Gloria Ferrari and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Aspects of ancient greece: an exhibition organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 through December 30, 1979, (Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1979).
, cat. no. 99; Bibliography; p. 204-05 -
Ancient Greece: life and art: an exhibition at the Newark Museum, (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1980).
, checklist no. 27 (see completed loan 1929 files). -
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Roman copies of Greek sculpture: the problems of the originals, (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1984).
, fig. 78. - B. S. Ridgway, et al., Greek sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University: Greek originals, Roman copies and variants, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1994)., cat. no. 27, pp. 85-88 (illus)
