Herm of a Satyr

Prince Cesare Ludovico Ottoboni (b. 1888);

Purchased from Ottoboni, and thence by descent to Sante MoraMarco, Paris [1];

Purchased from MoraMarco by Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, stock no. 15110, December 19, 1969-November 5, 1970;

Purchased from Loewi-Robertson, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970.

NOTES:

[1] According to William J. Robertson, Loewi-Robertson, Inc., in a letter to Laurence Sickman, Director, October 19, 1970, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files, Robertson acquired this object from a Paris-based private collector who told Robertson he had owned this object for “more than twenty years,” that his family had acquired it from Prince Cesare Ludovico Ottoboni “perhaps fifty years ago,” and that it had been discovered on the Ottoboni family estate in Grottaferrata “about 100 years ago.” In the Loewi-Robertson sales records, their acquisition source is identified as Sante MoraMarco. Frick Art Reference Library, New York, MS.129 Loewi-Robertson Archive, box 75, sales records card file, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. This piece was also offered for sale at Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Irish Bronze Age, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Anglo-Saxon antiquities, ancient glass and jewellery, Islamic pottery and metalwork , Sotheby’s, London, July 1, 1969, lot 120, but failed to sell.