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A Lady of Palmyra

CultureRoman
Date3rd century C.E.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 19 1/4 × 16 × 6 3/4 inches, 100 lb. (48.9 × 40.64 × 17.15 cm, 45.36 kg)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon
Object number48-13
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 105
Collections
Provenance

With Paul and Marguerite Mallon, New York, by 1948;

 

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

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), 44.

 

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.

 

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), 55.

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recto overall
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overall
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side A overall
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Column
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