Relief of a reclining man

Greek, Hellenistic, 2nd half of the 2nd century BC
Marble
H.: 46.3 cm. - W.: 52.5 cm. - D.: 5 cm.
Restorations from the 17th century

Provenance:

Former collection of Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661), Paris and Rome.
Former collection of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733), Wilton House, Wiltshire.
By descent to Sidney Herbert, 16th Earl of Pembroke (1906-1969), Wilton House, Wiltshire.
Sold at Christie’s on 3 July 1961 as lot 130.
Former private collection of Jan Mitchell (1913-2009), New York , acquired through the abovementioned sale. Then passed down by descent.

Publications:

-  Robert Castell, The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated,
London, 1728, p. 119, illus.
-  James Kennedy, A Description of the Antiquities and
Curiosities in Wilton-House, Salisbury, 1769, p. 105.
-  Richard Cowdry, A Description of the Pictures, Statues,
[...] at the Earl of Pembroke’s House at Wilton, London,
1751, p. 92.
-  Thomas Martyn, The English Connoisseur, London,
1767, p. 120.
-  George Richardson, Aedes Pembrochianae or a Critical
Account of the Statues, Bustos, Relievos [...] at Wilton-
House, London, 1774, p. 110.
-  Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale,
Inventory of all the furniture of Cardinal Mazarin drawn up in 1653, and published from the original, preserved in the Archives de Condé, London, 1861, p. 367, no. 123.
-  Adolf Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain, Cambridge, 1882, p. 689, no. 85.
-  Comte de Cosnac, The riches of the Palais Mazarin, 2nd ed., Paris, 1885, pp. 371-372, no. 1482.
-  Patrick Michel, Mazarin, Prince of collectors. The collections and furnishings of Jules Mazarin (1602- 1661). History and Analysis, Paris, 1999, p. 362.
-  Tomiko Yoshida-Takeda, Inventory drawn up in 1661 after the death of Cardinal Mazarin, Paris, 2004, p. 242, no. 1482.
-  Peter Stewart, A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House, Oxford, 2020, p. 406, no. 151.