Buste d'Asclepios ou Esculape
Moulding workshop of the Musée du Louvre (1794-1882)
Bust of Asclepios or Aesculapius
Plaster
H. 70 cm W. 39 cm D. 28 cm
After the so-called "Albani" type - from the famous collection of Cardinal Alessandro ALBANI (1692-1779) catalogued by his friend Winckelmann. We have here the upper part of a large marble discovered at the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli and dating from the second quarter of the 2nd century A.D.
Louvre inventory no: LL 14 ; MR 726 ; N 814 ; Ma 639.1
Date of present print run: 1852-1870
Possible outdoor exposure: no
Condition: missing, marks
Type of print in relation to model: fragment
