New York court orders seizure of an ancient Roman sculpture at Cleveland Museum of Art possibly connected to looting and trafficking.
The Cleveland Museum of Art's "Emperor as Philosopher," thought to represent Marcus Aurelius will be on display with the reopening of the lower-level 1916 galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art, covering art from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe. The statue is bronze, copper and stone inlay. Date shot: Thursday, June 10, 2010.
Cohen provided the search warrant. The district attorney’s office has jurisdiction over antiquities looting under New York State law if the works changed hands through art dealers there. In an email, Todd Mesek, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s chief marketing officer, said the institution “takes provenance issues very seriously and reviews claims to objects in the collection carefully and responsibly. As a matter of policy, the CMA does not discuss publicly whether a claim has even been made. The CMA believes that public discussion before a resolution is reached detracts from the free and open dialogue between the relevant parties that leads to the best result for all concerned.
Smithsonian magazine reported that more than 50 years ago, farmers uncovered an archaeological trove at Bubon, a Roman site in southwestern Turkey. The area, likely a shrine used to worship the emperor and his family, contained several rare bronze statues of Roman emperors and empresses. Cleveland Museum of Art Director and President William H. Griswold and the museum have earned a reputation in recent years for working proactively with foreign governments on whether works in the collection were looted before the museum acquired them from dealers or collectors in good faith.
In 2017, the museum returned an ancient Roman sculpture of the head of Drusus, an early imperial figure, to Italy. The museum bought the work in 2012 under then-director David Franklin.
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