Description
French school of the end of the XVIIth century after the antique Portrait of the emperor Marcus Vispanius Agrippa (63 BC - 12 BC) Bust in white marble Titled " MARCUS (AG)RIPPA " (sic) on the pedestal 75 x 82 cm on a marble pedestal (H. 21 cm) Wear and small accidents This marble work representing the emperor Agrip- pa was executed from a famous antique dated in the second half of the first century B.C., offered in the 16th century to Lorenzo de Medici. This most representative portrait of Agrippa, son-in-law and successor of the first emperor Augustus, must have originally belonged to a series of busts of emperors, such as princely houses in sixteenth-century Italy first, and then in those of adjacent countries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, used to keep in all Antica galleries. Work of reference: Around 23 BC. - 14 AD, Bust of Agrippa, H. 68 cm, marble, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, n°inv. 1914 n°90.
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French school of the end of the XVIIth century after the antique Portrait of the emperor Marcus Vispanius Agrippa (63 BC - 12 BC) Bust in white marble Titled " MARCUS (AG)RIPPA " (sic) on the pedestal 75 x 82 cm on a marble pedestal (H. 21 cm) Wear and small accidents This marble work representing the emperor Agrip- pa was executed from a famous antique dated in the second half of the first century B.C., offered in the 16th century to Lorenzo de Medici. This most representative portrait of Agrippa, son-in-law and successor of the first emperor Augustus, must have originally belonged to a series of busts of emperors, such as princely houses in sixteenth-century Italy first, and then in those of adjacent countries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, used to keep in all Antica galleries. Work of reference: Around 23 BC. - 14 AD, Bust of Agrippa, H. 68 cm, marble, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, n°inv. 1914 n°90.
