Description
This cast bronze is after a marble head in the British Museum, a Roman copy of Pergamene Gaul, found in Italy in 1771 and formerly in the Towneley Collection.
Provenance
Raoul Heilbronner, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as Italian, 16th century]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.