French School Of The 19th Century. Bust Of Sallust (caius Sallustius Crispus).

French school of the 19th century.
Bust of Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus, 86-35 BC).
After the marble bust preserved at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
Oil on cardboard mounted on wooden panel.
In a wooden frame.
Dimensions with frame; Height: 41 cm X Width: 35 cm. Panel dimensions; Height; 30 cm X Width: 24 cm. 

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust, was a Roman historian and politician from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar. He is the earliest known Latin-language Roman historian with surviving works to his name, of which Conspiracy of Catiline (on the eponymous conspiracy), The Jugurthine War (on the eponymous war), and the Histories (of which only fragments survive) remain extant. As a writer, Sallust was primarily influenced by the works of the 5th-century BC Greek historian Thucydides. During his political career he amassed great and ill-gotten wealth from his governorship of Africa.