
Louise Termignon
Stock Inventory and Discovery Sale Coordinator








€15,000 - €20,000

Stock Inventory and Discovery Sale Coordinator

Senior Specialist

Consultant
Provenance
with Nonweiler, Brussels.
Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above in 1971. The purchase recorded in a March 1985 insurance document.
This is an extremely rare representation of a man butchering a pig. For a Roman marble statue of a rustically represented man gutting a cloven hooved animal strung from a tree, cf. an example in the Louvre Museum, Paris, inventory nos. MR699 & N928; also in Claire Bubb, Dissection in Classical Antiquity, New York University, 2022, p. 438, fig. 5.1 & front cover illus.