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 [1];
Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Jacob Hirsch, PhD. (1874–1955) was born in Munich,
studied at Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Rome, and then founded a
dealership in Munich in 1897. He moved to Lucerne in 1919 and founded Ars
Classica in 1922. In 1931, he opened Jacob Hirsch Antiquities in New York. At
some point, he also had a gallery in Paris. He handled coins and antiquities
but also had his own collection. See Hadrien Rambach, “A List of coin dealers
in nineteenth-century Germany,” in A Collection in Context. Kommentierte Edition der Briefe und
Dokumente Sammlung Dr. Karl von Schäffer, ed. Henner Hardt and Stefan Krmnicek
(Tübingen, Germany: Tübingen University Press, 2017), 69–70, hal-04345662. See also “Dr. Jacob
Hirsch, 81, An Authority on Art,” New York Times, July 5, 1955, 29.
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.
