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Roman Girl

CultureRoman
Dateca. 140-150 C.E.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 × 6 inches (27.31 × 21.59 × 15.24 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-200
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Byzantine Women and their World, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University, October 25, 2002-April 28, 2003.


Fashioning Identities: Portraiture through the Ages, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, February 12-May 21, 2005.


Luxury: Treasures of the Roman Empire, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 9-October 2, 2016.

Provenance

With Zoumpoulakis, by 1934;

 

Purchased from Zoumpoulakis by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

Published References

Cornelius Vermeule, “Greek and Roman Portraits in American Collections Open to the Public: A Survey of Important Monumental Likenesses in Marble and Bronze Which Have Not Been Published Extensively,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, no. 2 (1964):  105, fig. 35.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “Ten Greek and Roman Portraits in Kansas City,” Apollo 99, no. 147 (May 1974): 318-19, figs. 10, 10a.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 374, no. 324.

 

Alberto Valil, review of Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, by Cornelius Vermeule, Boletin del seminario de estudios de arte y arqueologia 49 (1983): 541.

 

Klaus Fittschen and Paul Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, vol. 3 (Philipp von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein, 1983), 70(e).

 

Kalus Fittschen, “Über Sarkophage mit Porträts verschiedener Personen,” Marburger Winckelmann Programm (1983-1984): 141, figs. 40-41.

 

Robert Cohon, Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 30, plate 6.

 

Elizabeth Gittings, “Portrait Head of a Young Woman” in Byzantine Women and Their World, ed. Ioli Kalavrezou, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 78-80, no. 25.

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Roman Girl
early 3rd century C.E.
F77-36/7
Roman Youth
ca. 120-130 C.E.
34-138
side A overall
190-200 C.E.
34-91/1
Roman Gentleman
ca. 120 C.E.
47-30
Heracles
2nd-1st century B.C.E.
34-79
Cycladic Idol
mid-3rd millennium B.C.E.
35-41
Male Torso
ca. 75-125 C.E.
41-48
recto overall
1st - 2nd century C.E.
34-135
overall
325 B.C.E.
33-94
Relief with Helios
ca. 400 B.C.E.
45-32/7