Prince of the Imperial Family from Gabii in the Louvre, June 2014

Prince of the Imperial Family

statue
Period / period: Imperial Roman

Date of creation / manufacture: 2nd quarter of the century.AD (time of Claudius or Caligula) (25 - 50)
Place of creation: Rome (?)
Place of discovery: Gabii - 1792 (for the head and the body)

Inventory number
Catalog number: Ma 1221
Other inventory number: MR 305
Other inventory number: N 1529

Collection: Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

Description
Object name / Title
Denomination: statue
Description / Features
composite work; Nero Caesar (?, Drusus Caesar,?, Portrait); emperor (half-nude, cloak, half-drape, support: palm tree)

State of the work: The head was reassembled on the body formerly. A large part of the head, the left ear, the nose have been redone except the face and the right part of the head. The torso and the right arm which were in several fragments were reattached. The left arm with the drapery pan, the right hand, the top of the right arm, the left mid-leg and foot, the front of the right foot, the base have been redone. The shards on the palm tree trunk, neck, drapery have been completed. The gaps were completed in marble by Pacetti

Physical characteristics
Dimensions: Height: 200 cm; Width: 82 cm; Depth: 75cm

Materials and techniques
Material: marble
Technique: in the round (sculpture)

Places and dates
Dated
Period / period: Imperial Roman

Date of creation / manufacture: 2nd quarter of the centuryAD (time of Claudius or Caligula) (25 - 50)
Place of origin: Rome (?)
Date of discovery: 1792
Place of discovery: Gabii - 1792 (for the head and the body)

History
Collector / Previous owner / Commissioner / Archaeologist / Dedicatee
Borghese, Camille (collection)
Acquisition details: purchase
Acquisition date: Date: 1807
Owned by: state
Held by: Louvre Museum, Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities


Text from: collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010275375