Portrait, possibly Ptolemy I
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The high quality of work, however, cannot be disputed. The remarkable integration of forms, as for example the way the corners of the lips fold into the cheeks, makes it a tour de force.
With Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1934;
Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
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), 115.
Jack Josephson, “A Fragmentary Egyptian Head from Heliopolis,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal 30 (1995): 11, fig. 9.
Jack Josephson, Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Late Period 400-246 B.C. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 30 (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1997), 42-44, plate 13a.
Paul Stanwick, “Egyptian Royal Sculptures of the Ptolemaic Period” (PhD diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1999), 252, 374.
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), 10, fig.22.
