Harmakhis
Classical, Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities
Natural history
Minimenstraat - 3
Rue des Minimes
1000 Brussels
Mobile : +32 475 65 02 85
info@harmakhis.be
www.harmakhis.be
ABOUT
Born in Brussels in 1960, Jacques Billen founded his gallery in 1988 in Sablon.
A graduate in History of Art and Archaeology, Oriental Philology and History of Université Catholique de Louvain, Jacques Billen is first and foremost a specialist of ancient Egyptian art. Nevertheless, he also offers a nice selection of classical antiquities and occasionally from the Near East.
Since 2022, he has in his gallery a natural history department.
In parallel to his career as an antiquities dealer, Jacques Billen is also an expert in Egyptian Art.
Jacques Billen is a member of the following expert and antiquarian associations :
Chambre Belge des Experts en Oeuvres d’Art, ROCAD, International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art (IADAA).
Venus Anadyomene
Marble. H: 14 cm
Roman art, 2nd century AD
Provenance : Numisart Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
The present head of Venus, once part of a marble statue, shows the goddess rising from the sea, wringing and arranging her hair. The sculpture is based on a Hellenistic prototype that showed the goddess of love and beauty drying herself after being born -full-grown- from the sea off the coast of Cyprus.
