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Young Woman

Former TitleYoung Girl
CultureEgyptian
Date7th century B.C.E.
MediumWood
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 inches (16.51 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-25
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 103
Collections
DescriptionThe young woman strides forward with her left foot first and right arm at her side. She wears a tripartite wig and close-fitting, semi-transparent dress stretching from just below her breasts almost to her ankles. A tie below her right breast holds up the dress. her pierced ears at one time held earrings.Exhibition History

Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, October 18, 1960-January 9, 1961, no. 11.

Provenance

With Spink & Son, Ltd., London, by November 1946-1947 [1];

Purchased from Spink & Son, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

[1] A copy of the consular invoice for the sculpture’s shipment from London to New York, dated November 27, 1946, is in the NAMA curatorial file.


Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art

 and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 22.

 

Bernard Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period (New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1960), 12-13, no. 11, plate 11, fig.16. 

 

John Cooney, “Art of the Ancient World,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 476, fig. 6.

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 30.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 113.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 8, fig. 15.

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