Portrait of Agrippina the Elder in the Louvre, June 2014

Agrippina the Elder
(c.15 BC–AD 33)
Portrait made between AD 37 and 41 during the reign of Caligula.
Provenance: Athens
Greek marble
H. 44 cm

This head embellishes and idealizes the princess’s features by assimilating her image to figures of Aphrodite created in Greek sculpture in the 4th century BC. It is a posthumous portrait in which the emperor Caligula’s mother is made to appear younger than she was.

Acquired in 1909
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
N° d'entrée MND 848
(n° usuel Ma 3133)

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