Ancient Art and Its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe : : A Collection of Essays Written by the Participants of the John Marshall Archive Project.

• Author: Petruccioli, Guido.
• HerausgeberIn: Petruccioli, Guido,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)

John Marshall (1862-1928) was an antiquities expert hired by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. An attentive observer of the antiquities trade, Marshall's archive, photographs and annotations on more than 1000 objects, shines light on the secretive world of art dealing and how objects arrived...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Pretitle
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Contents
• List of Figures and Plates
• Introduction
• Figure 0.2. Letter sent to John Marshall, declaring that the fragment of mosaic floor, formerly in Count Stroganoff's collection, was of historical and archaeological interest for the Italian government and therefore banned from exportation (ph. JMA [PHP
• Figure 0.3. Miniature bronze portrait bust of a Roman matron, once thought to be the empress Livia (MMA 52.11.6) (photographic prints formerly at Lewes House, now Ashmolean Museum. Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford).
• Figure 0.4. John Marshall's Letterbook. Oxford, Sackler Library (ph. Guido Petruccioli).
• Figure 0.5. John Marshall's index card file. British School at Rome (ph. Guido Petruccioli).
• John Marshall - A Biographical Essay
• Figure 1.1. John Marshall at his desk with his pet crow (negatives formerly at Lewes House, now Ashmolean Museum EPW/1/1/43 'Twin photos of John Marshall at desk with pet crow on shoulder'. Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford).
• Collectors and the Agents of Ancient Art in Rome
• Figure 2.1. Wolfgang Helbig (1839-1915), German archaeologist and purchasing agent for the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
• Figure 2.2. Paul Arndt (1865-1937), German archaeologist and purchasing agent for several museums in Europe (ph. from Lullies &amp
• Schiering).
• Figure 2.3. Standing marble lion, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen IN 2448.
• Figure 2.4. Standing marble lion from Marathon, MMA 09.221.9 (ph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain).
• Figure 2.5. Seated statue of an orator, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen IN 2685 (ph. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).
• Figure 2.9. The false Diadumenos, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek IN 1429 (ph. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).
• Figure 2.7. Small boy with a cockerel, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek IN 2610 (ph. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)..
• Figure 2.8. Statue of the emperor Trajan, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek IN 2571 (ph. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).
• Figure 2.9. Bronze portrait of a Roman, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek IN 2758. (ph. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).
• The Photographs in John Marshall's Archive
• Figure 3.1. Female panther offered by George Yanacopuolos (329) (ph. JM [PHP]-09-0654 recto and verso).
• Figure 3.2. Nike Paionios, plate 12 from the excavation publication by Ernst Curtius et al., Die Ausgrabungen zu Olympia, 1876. The sculpture is seen from the side, one of four photographs of the sculpture in the publication. The flying character of the s
• Figure 3.3a. Lion offered to Marshall but acquired by Carl Jacobsen at auction in Paris in 1913 (288) (ph. JM [PHP]-08-0584). b. The same photograph but with the background whited out (288) (ph. JM [PHP]-08-0585). c. The lion seen from another perspective
• Figure 3.4. Group of Rhodian vases offered in 1914 (581) (ph. JM [PHP]-15-1122).
• Figure 3.5. Marble capital displayed in front of a dark patterned curtain, perhaps in the gallery of the supplier, one of the Canessa brothers (1156) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1417).
• Figure 3.6. Himation figure in an aesthetic staging with black background and much less depth in the photograph (281) (ph. JM [PHP]-10-0577).
• Figure 3.6a. Relief of a falling warrior (394) showing the relief in the open air, supported by stones to suit the camera (ph. JM [PHP]-10-0771). b. Relief of a falling warrior (394) mounted on a wall indoors on a wooden shelf or bracket (ph. JM [PHP]-10-
• Figure 3.7. Fragments belonging to the grave relief acquired in 1911, and offered separately to Marshall a few months later (11). Here the fragments are presented on black velvet cloth (ph. JM [PHP]-01-0028).
• John Marshall, The Met and the Historiography of 'Greek Sculpture'
• Figure 4.1. Plan of the Classical rooms at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, after 1926 (from Richter 1930b).
• Figure 4.2. Plaster cast gallery. Dwight Memorial Art Building, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (USA) (ph. JM [PHP]-21-1540 and 1541).
• Figure 4.3 Plaster casts of the Chios head (MFA 10.70), detail of the mouth from different angles (ph. Cesare Faraglia, JM [PHP]-25-1786 to 1789).
• Figure 4.4. Marble torso, copy of the so-called Pothos by Skopas (426). Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme 479 (ph. JM [PHP]-11-0848).
• Figure 4.5. Head of a satyr, from a statue of the so-called Wine-Pouring Satyr by Praxiteles (18). MMA 08.258.43 (ph. JM [PHP]-01-0038).
• Figure 4.6. Marble head of a youth, the so-called Petworth Athlete by Kresilas (21). MMA 11.210.2 (ph. The Metropolitan Museum, public domain).
• Figure 4.7. Bronze reconstruction by Georg Römer of the Doryphoros by Polikleitos (ph. Guido Petruccioli).
• Figure 4.8. Marble head of a youth, copy of a work attributed to Polykleitos (21). MMA 07.286.116 (ph. The Metropolitan Museum, public domain).
• Figure 4.9. The so-called Protesilaos. MMA 25.116 (ph. The Metropolitan Museum, public domain).
• Figure 4.10. View of the Peristyle Court in Wing K. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, circa 1926 (ph. JM [PHP]-02-0161).
• Figure 4.4. Marble head of Harmodios from the Tyrannicides statue group by Kritios and Nesiotes (104). MMA 26.60.1 (ph. JM [PHP]-03-0215, 0217 and 0218).
• Figure 4.6. Marble copy of the Crouching Aphrodite by Doidalsas (26). MMA 09.221.1 (ph. JM [PHP]-01-0052, 0053 and 0054).
• Figure 4.8. Marble head of a bearded god (48). MMA 13.231.2 (ph. JM [PHP]-02-0096 and 0097).
• Figure 4.14. Marble torso of Eros, Roman copy of a Greek original attributed to Praxiteles (92). MMA 24.97.14 (ph. JM [PHP]-03-0189 and 0190).
• Figure 4.15. Headless statuette of a draped woman, copy of the Aspasia/Sosandra type (99). MMA 24.97.31 (ph. JM[PHP]-03-0204, 0205, 0206).
• ­John Marshall's Dealings with Vases and Terracottas
• Figure 7.1. Seven Geometric vases offered by C. A. Lembessis and acquired by The Metropolitan in 1910 (177). MMA 10.210.7
• MMA 10.210.8
• MMA 10.210.2
• MMA 10.210.3
• MMA 10.210.4
• MMA 10.210.5 (ph. JM [PHP]-05-0356).
• Figure 7.2. Arretine pottery and moulds exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1927 (ph. Keystone View Company, gelatin silver print. Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside).
• 'Non-antique' Objects in the John Marshall Archive
• Figure 8.1. Donatello (from a model by), Madonna and Child, the so-called Madonna di Verona (741) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1373).
• Figure 8.2. Donatello (from a model by), Madonna and Child, the so-called Madonna di Verona (741) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1374).
• Figure 8.3. Donatello (from a model by), Madonna and Child, the so-called Madonna di Verona (after Collections Camillo Castiglioni de Vienne. III Catalogue des tableaux, sculptures, meubles, orfèvreries, bijoux antiques, boîten or, tapisseries, tapis, éto
• Figure 8.4. Four cannon barrels (754) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1393).
• Figure 8.5. Embroidered 'bed cover' depicting episodes from the legend of Tristan (761) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1404).
• Figure 8.6. File card referring to 761 (ph. JM [PHP]-31-1405).
• Figure 8.7. Baroque carved ceiling (758) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1398).
• Figure 8.8. St George from a Baroque carved ceiling (758) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1399).
• Figure 8.9. Della Robbia workshop, heraldic shield, plausibly of the Attendolo Sforza family from Cotignola (737) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1369).
• Figure 8.10. Andrea Bregno, Saint Andrew (713) (ph. JM [PHP]-19-1330).
• Figure 8.12. Monogrammist CB, Entombment of Christ (728) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1351).
• Figure 8.13. Back of photograph in Figure 8.24 (728) (ph. JM [PHP]-20-1351).
• John Marshall's Trading Network
• Chart 9.1 The number and distribution of items offered to John Marshall between 1906 and 1928, ordered by seller.
• Figure 9.1. Unfinished marble statue of a centaur (410) (ph. JM [PHP]-11-0810).
• Figure 9.2. Colossal marble torso of a nude man (427) (ph. JM [PHP]-11-0849 to 0853
• JM [PHP]-26-1827).
• Map 1
• Map 2
• Plates
• b. Seated marble lion (333) (ph. JM [PHP]-09-0660). Present whereabouts unknown.
• Standing marble lion (335) (ph. JM [PHP]-09-0661, 0662, 0663, 0664). Present whereabouts unknown.
• Small boy with a hare and grapes (345) (ph. JM [PHP]-09-0684).
• Head of a statue of the emperor Trajan (1016) (ph. JM [PHP]-27-1934).
• Fragment of a bronze portrait statue of a Roman (520) (ph. JMA [PHP]-14-1029 and 1030 recto and verso).
• Fragments of the cuirass of a bronze statue (520)(ph. JM [PHP]-14-1031 recto and verso).
• Marble head of a girl acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1910 (975). Photo by Edward J. Moore, photographer at the museum (ph. JM [PHP]-25-1761a).
• Marble head of a youth dated to the second century AD acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1914 (47
• MMA 14.130.5). Photograph probably by Cesare Faraglia (ph. JM [PHP]-02-0092).
• a. Portrait of Livia, acquired from Canessa by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1918 (65
• MMA 18.145.45) (ph. JM [PHP]-02-0129).
• c. Torso acquired from A. Restoven for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1918 or 1919 and de-accessioned in 1928 (69) (ph. JM [PHP]-02-0133).