Bust, hombre barbado - 12 cm - Patinated bronze

Nineteenth-century bronze sculpture.

Portrait bust on a pedestal, height 12 cm.

Wear; the original stone plinth is missing.

This image shows a bronze bust representing an ancient Greek philosopher, commonly identified in the history of classical art as Democritus of Abdera (the famous pre-Socratic philosopher and father of atomic theory), though formally cataloged also as the portrait of an anonymous Hellenistic philosopher.