Sarcophagus
- 104
With Ugo Simonetti, by August 21, 1929 [1];
Purchased from Simonetti by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. H113, August 21, 1929-July 27, 1932;
With Brummer Gallery, on joint account with Dr. Jacob Hirsch, New York, July 27, 1932-February 16, 1933 [2];
Purchased from Brummer Gallery and Hirsch, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Greek and Roman marbles and stones, object inventory card no. H113.
[2] Brummer Gallery sold a half share interest in the object to Hirsch on July 27, 1932. 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.
Nikolaus Himmelmann-Wildschütz and Hagen Biesantz, eds., Festschrift für Friedrich Matz (Mainz: von Zabern, 1962), 103, plate 29.1.
Max Wegner, Die Musensarkophage (Berlin: Mann, 1966), 19-20, 107, 123, plate 150a.
Clementina Panella, “Iconografia delle muse sui sarcophagi romani,” Studi Miscellanei 12 (1966-1967): 19-20, 23, 25, 27, 31-32, 35-36.
Hans Gabelmann, review of Die Musensarkophage, by Max Wegner, Bonner Jahrbücher 168 (1968): 540.
Marion Lawrence, review of Die Musensarkophage, by Max Wegner, American Journal of Archaeology 72, no. 4 (1968): 406
Clementina Panella, “Osservazioni al corpus dei sarcophagi con muse di Max Wegner,” Archeologia Classica 20 (1968): 328.
Klaus Fittschen, review of Die Musensarkophage, by Max Wegner, Gnomon 44 (1972): 489.
Mario Moretti, ed., Nuove scoperte e acquisizioni nell’ Etruria Meridonale (Rome: Editrice “Artistica” di A. Nardini, 1975), 263.
Margarete Bieber, Ancient Copies: Contributions to the History of Greek and Roman Art (New York: New York University, 1977), 249.
Lucia Paduano Faedo, “I sarcophagi romani con muse,” in Principat 12.2. Künste, ed. Hildegard Temporini, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung 2, ed. Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1981), 77n33, 118n149, 152-53.
Huberta Heres, “Ein verschollener Musensarkophag,” Forschungen und Berichte 22 (1982): 187, 190
Guntram Koch, Hellmut Sichtermann, and Friedrike Sinn-Henninger, Römische Sarkophage: Handbuch der Archäologie (Munich: C. H. Beck’sche, 1982), 198 (Koch)
Guntram Koch and Karol Wight, Roman Funerary Sculpture: Catalogue of the Collections (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988), 16.
Guntram Koch, “Einige Fragmente Figurengeschmückter Sarkophage,” Archäologischer Anzeiger, heft 3 (1993): 425-426.
Lucia Faedo, “Mousa, Mousae/Musae,” in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, vol. 7, pt. 1 (Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1994), 1045, 1052, 1054-56, 1058-59.
Guntram Koch, ed., Akten des Symposiums “125 Jahre Sarkophag-Corpus”: Marburg, 4.-7. Oktober 1995 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1998), 40n9.
Björn Christian Ewald, Der Philosoph als Leitbild: Ikonographische Untersuchungen an römischen Sarkophagreliefs (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1999), 30n137, 32n150, 136, 147, 208, 224, plate 96.1-4.
Robert Cohon, “Roman Metrics and Roman Sarcophagi,” in Römische Sarkophage: Akten des Internationalen Werkstattgespräch, 11.-13. Oktober 2012 (Graz), ed. Barbara Porod and Gabriele Koiner (Graz: Uni Graz, 2015), 75, 80, 82, fig. 5.
