Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Collector

Baron Barracco

fl. 1891–1893 · Italy

Italian collector, active 1891–1893. Bought from Joly de Bammeville; acted for Wilhelm Froehner.

Life and work

  1. 7 September 1891
    Froehner offered the Baron two small ancient heads, one from Mycenae and a 'Pallas' head from Cyprus (Froehner's journal as quoted by Hellmann). Hellmann finds no Cypriot Pallas in the Barracco catalogue (1973); two heads are listed as 'dono Froehner' (nos. 72 and 46, neither Cypriot), so she asks 'confusion, or resale?'.

    Hellmann 1991

  2. 15 June 1893
    At the Joly de Bammeville sale (12-16 June 1893, experts Rollin-Feuardent, catalogue by Froehner) Froehner bought a Cypriot head for Barracco; it became no. 67 in the Museo Barracco catalogue, 'testa di sacerdote (?) coronato, arte cipriota del VI-V s. a. C.'.

    ParisHellmann 1991

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Objects

  • Cypriot limestone head of a crowned priest(?), 6th-5th c. BC

    Museo Barracco, Rome Catalogo (Pietrangeli 1973) no. 6715 June 1893Hellmann 1991, n. 36

Sources

  1. 1.Marie-Christine Hellmann (1991). “W. Froehner et Chypre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 16, 17-28. Online
  2. 2.Antoine Hermary (1990). “Ohnefalsch-Richter à Amathonte”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 13, 21-26.