Watch List notes:

After the Antique, 15th century, Bust of a Classical Youth, bronze plaquette, draped and diademed bust right, 26.5mm x 31.9mm (Molinier 61, this piece illustrated with a line drawing; cf. Bange 212; Kress 266; Bargello 7; Scaglia I 26; Warren, Ashmolean, 362), pierced, a fine early cast with brown patina. Provenance: Louis Courajod (1841-96) collection (with paper label on the reverse inscribed Molinier no. 61); Gian Guido Scarampella, Brescia; Mark Wilchusky, New York. Similar paper labels written in the same hand are found on a plaquette of Hercules and the Nemean Lion in the Scaglia collection and the Head of Dionysus gifted to the NGA Washington by Mark Wilchusky in 1995. The portrait has sometimes been described as that of the young Caracalla or Mithradates VI of Pontus. Louis Courajod was an important French art historian, museum curator and collector and it was he who coined the term "plaquette" as an artistic category.
(200-300 GBP)