Funerary Portrait of a Woman
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2500 Years of Italian Art and Civilization, Seattle Art Museum, November 10-December 8, 1957, no. 23.
Roman Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, April 6-May 14, 1961, no. 13.
I Claudia, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, September 6-December 1, 1996; San Antonio Museum of Art, January 3-March 9, 1997; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, April 6- June 15, 1997, no. 124.
Luxury: Treasures of the Roman Empire, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, July 9-October 2, 2016.
Possibly found at Alexandria, Egypt [1];
With Louis Habib, Paris, by 1922 [2];
With Paul Mallon, Paris and New York, by 1947-1948;
Purchased from Mallon, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.
NOTES:
[1] According to Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 307.
[2] Offered to John Marshall by Louis Habib in 1922. John Marshall Archive, British School at Rome, cardfile B.I.131.
Paul Graindor, Bustes et statues-portraits d’Égypt romaine, Recueil de travaux publiés par la faculté des letteres, fasc. 11 (Cairo: Université Égyptienne, 1933), 109, no. 53, plates 45, 46a,b.
Georg Lippold, review of Bustes et statues-portraits d’Égypt romaine, by Paul Graindor, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeiger 200 (1938): 157-58.
Max Wegner, Die Herrscherbildnisse in antoninischer Zeit, Das römische Herrscherbild, Abt. 2, Bd. 4 (Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1939), 288n (n. for p. 109).
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 28.
2500 Years of Italian Art and Civilization, exh. cat. (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1957), no. 23, fig. 8.
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), 37.
Hans Jucker, Das Bildnis in Blätterkelch. Geschichte und Bedeutung einer römischen Porträtform, Bibliotheca Helvetica Romana 3 (Lausanne: Urs Graf-Verlag, 1961), 83-84, no. St 26, 126, 128, plate 32.
Hans Jucker, “Römische Porträtbusten auf Blätterkelch,” Atti del settimo congresso internazionale di archeologia classica, vol. 2 (Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1961), 486, fig. 3.
Michael Milkovich, Roman Portraits, exh. cat. (Worcester: Worcester Art Museum, 1961), 6, 34-35, no. 13.
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), 47.
Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 307, no. 263.
Klaus Fittschen and Paul Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, vol. 3, Kaiserinnen- und Prinzessinnenbildnisse Frauenporträts, Beiträge zur Erschließung hellenistischer und kaiserzeitlischer Skulptur und Architektur 4 (Philipp von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein, 1983), 55n4.
Ellen R. Goheen, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 28-29, fig. 6.
Klaus Fittschen, “Bildnis einer Frau trajanischer Zeit aus Milreu,” Madrid Mitteilungen 34 (1993): 203, 205, plate 24b.
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), 121.
Robert Cohon, Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 30, plate 7.
Diana Kleiner and Susan Matheson, I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome, exh. cat. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996), 169-70, no. 124.
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), 15, fig. 40.
Elizabeth Bartman, “Ethnicity in Roman Portraiture,” in Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. Erich Gruen (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011), 241-42.
