Roman
A Roman terracotta Campana relief fragment, Late 1st century BC - early 1st century AD
Terracotta
Width: 19 cm
Depicting a fragment of one of the Four Seasons (Horae) from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Preserving the upper part of the female figure of 'Spring' originally in procession...
Depicting a fragment of one of the Four Seasons (Horae) from the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Preserving the upper part of the female figure of 'Spring' originally in procession to the right, wearing a chiton which falls off her shoulder, carrying a bundle laden with fruits.
Provenance
Artemis A.W. Joukowsky (1930 - 2020) and Dr. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (1936 - 2022), Providence, RI, acquired 1967 - 1974; thence by descentExhibitions
Providence, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection, 12 October - 8 November 1985Literature
'Campana' reliefs take their name from Giampietro Campana, Marchese di Cavelli (1808-1880), a prolific collector of Greek and Roman art, who had a number of these reliefs in his collection. Campana reliefs were often made from moulds, from which several copies of the same scene could be taken, and then finished by hand. This example depicts 'Spring', one of the Four Seasons (Horae) likely from the wedding procession of Peleus and Thetis. The British Museum holds a pair of 'Four Seasons' reliefs which show a similar figure the present example (acc. no. 1805.7-3.328); also the Musée du Louvre, acc. no. Cp 4164.M. Rauch, Bacchische Themen und Nilbilder auf Campanareliefs, 1999, p. 78-82, 165; S. Reinach, Répertoire des reliefs, II, Afrique - Iles Britanniques, 1912, p. 262, no. 1; H. von Rohden, Architektonische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit, 1911, p. 89-92, fig. 179.