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Record drawing of a patera showing a face in high relief with blind eyes and collar, within an oval frame of radiating acanthus leaves with a leaf border. Adjacent are details of part of a whip, and part-profile of the plate.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/158
Purpose
Record drawing of a patera showing a face in high relief with blind eyes and collar, within an oval frame of radiating acanthus leaves with a leaf border. Adjacent are details of part of a whip, and part-profile of the plate.
Aspect
Detail
Inscribed
Inscribed in chalk L
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 1763
Medium and dimensions
Red chalk
395 x 561
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
The plate and whip are sacrifical details from a temple relief, possibly taken from a patera in the frieze of the remains of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Vespasian) in the Roman Forum, which shows both (see G.L. Taylor & E. Cresy, The Architectural Antiquities of Rome, 2 vols., London, 1821, vol.II, p.18). Adam vol.26/85 shows a similar sacrificial relief including both whip and decorated circular plate. There are additional frieze reliefs of such subjects in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome (see P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, Oxford, 1986, p.226).
Level
Drawing
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