Unknown artist, 19th century. Grand Tour patinated... Lot 45

Unknown artist, 19th century. Grand Tour patinated bronze bust of Senaca. On round stepped marble base. Unsigned. Measurements: 44 x 22 x 23 cm. Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AD), usually known as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. The 19th Century Grand Tour patinated bronze bust of the Pseudo-Seneca, after the antique original found at the Villa dei Paperi in Herculaneum and now in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.