Head of a Goddess
Overall (with base): 20 3/4 inches (52.71 cm)
- 103
Magna Grecia: I Greci in Occidente, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, March 24-October 7, 1996, no. 286.
With Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1933 [1];
Purchased from Hirsch, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
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.
Paolo Arias, “Einige Bedeutsame Antiken in Amerika,” Pantheon 12 (July-December 1933), 90, 367 (with plate).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 119.
Pierre Wuilleumier, Tarente, des Origins à la Conquête Romaine (Paris, 1939), 286, plate VII.4.
Ernst Langlotz, “Wesenzüge der bildenden Kunst Groß-Griechenlands,” Antike und Abendland 2 (1946): 122, fig. 7.
Ernst Langlotz, “Ein Artemiskopf,” in Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson, vol. 1, ed. George Mylonas (St. Louis: Washington University, 1951), 646.
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), 26.
Ernst Langlotz and Max Hirmer, Die Kunst der Westgriechen in Sizilien und Unteritalien (Munich: Hirmer, 1963), 300, plate 135.
Ernst Langlotz and Max Hirmer, Ancient Greek Sculpture of South Italy and Sicily (New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1965]), 291, fig. 135.
Ernst Langlotz, “La scultura,” in Taranto nella civiltà della Magna Grecia. Atti
del 10. Convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia, Taranto, 4 - 11 Ottobre 1970 (Naples: Arte Tipografica Napoli, 1973), 236 (with plate).
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), 36.
Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America. Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 91, no. 61.
P. Orlandini, “Le arti figurative,” in Megale Hellas: storia e civiltà della Magna Grecia, ed. Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (Milan: Libri Scheiwiller, 1983), 482.
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), 118.
Benjamin Martinez, Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 1995), 219, fig. B.
Roberta Belli Pasqua, Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto, vol. 4, pt. 1, Taranto, la scultura in marmo e in pietra (Taranto: La Colomba s.r.l., 1995), 62, no. III.b.
Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, The Western Greeks, exh. cat. (Milano: Bompiani, 1996), 726, no. 286.
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), 12, fig. 29.
Susan Siegfried, Ingres: Painting Reimagined (New Haven: Yale University, 2009), 127, fig. 71.
Elena Ghisellini, “Testa femminile velata,” in Athena Nike: la vittoria della dea. Marmi greci del V e IV secolo a.C. della Fondazione Sorgente Group (Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, 2013), 131.
