Relief of Ramses II
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Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 11, 1996-January 5, 1997; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 8–May 18, 1997.
Echoes of Eternity: The Egyptian Mummy and the Afterlife, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, June 4-May 7, 1999-2000.
Although the artist portrays Ramses II with a long aquiline nose, the image remains highly idealized, as suited a ruler born of divine parents. The portrait's delicate features stand in contrast to the powerful, emotion-filled image of Sen-useret III behind you to the right.
Alfréd Réth (1884-1966), Paris, by 1932;
Purchased from Reth, through Brummer Gallery, New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
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), 116.
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), 9, fig. 17.