Portrait of a Man

ca. 40 BCE (Late Republican)

18.1 cm 30.6 cm 22.9 cm

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During the Republic, men in power wanted their portraits to express the qualities they associated with leadership: experience, determination, practicality, and valor. Such an image tended to have a realistic appearance, with a direct gaze and heavily lined face.

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Ugo Jandolo, Rome, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, 1936, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P13152]; Joseph Brummer Sale, New York, June 9, 1949, no. 417; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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