Comment on Ropp's Commission 1804-05
It has been impossible to trace such a bust in sources as Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, 6 vols., Paris 1897-1930, and Helbig, op. cit.
Sappho does not appear in LIMC – Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, as that lexicon includes only mythological figures, rather than historical personages.
The facial type is reminiscent in motif, though not in style, of the so-called Sappho in the Villa Albani in Rome; cf. Helbig, op. cit., no. 3251.
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