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Portrait of a Man

CultureRoman
Date220-230 C.E.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 14 1/2 × 7 1/2 × 8 inches (36.83 × 19.05 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-14
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 104
Collections
Exhibition History

Art of the Late Antique from American Collections, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, December 17, 1968-February 16, 1969, no. 8.

Provenance

Possibly Alexandrian [1];

 

With Paul Mallon, New York, by 1947;

 

Purchased from Paul Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

 

NOTES:

 

[1] According to Paul Mallon, in correspondence with NAMA, NAMA curatorial files.

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), 38.

 

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): 106, 134, fig. 42.

 

Art of the Late Antique from American Collections, exh. cat. (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 1968), 47, no. 8.

 

James Breckenridge, Likeness: A Conceptual History of Ancient Portraiture (Evanston: Northwest University, 1968), 229-30, fig. 120.

 

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), 46.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “Ten Greek and Roman Portraits in Kansas City,” Apollo 99, no. 147 (1974): 317-19, no. 9, figs. 9, 9a.

 

Marianne Bergmann, Studien zum römischen Porträt des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. (Bonn: Rudolph Habelt Verlag GMBH, 1977), 173n719, 201.

 

Jutta Meischner, “Privatporträts aus den Regierungsjahren des Elagabal und Alexander Severus (218-235),” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 99 (1984): 343, no. 39, 347-48, fig. 49, 350. 

 

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), 122.

 

Jutta Meischner, Bildnisse der Spätantike: 193-500: Problemfelder – Die Privatporträts (Berlin: edition.bnb, 2001), 37, 41, fig. 81.

 

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), 17, fig. 46.

 

Klaus Fittschen, Paul Zanker, and Petra Cain, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, vol. 2, Die männlichen Privatporträts, 2 vols., Beiträge zur Erschließung hellenistischer und kaiserzeitlischer Skulptur und Architektur 4 (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2010), 1:149n5c, 161n3; 2:Beilage 20 a-c.

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