Portrait of a Young Woman (Fayum Portrait) | Yale University Art Gallery

1st–2nd century A.D.

Not on view

Medium: Encaustic painting on wood
Dimensions: 16 1/16 × 8 3/8 in. (40.75 × 21.25 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Olsen Foundation; Acc by the GB 12/14/55
Accession Number: 1955.60.3
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Roman
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography

Marie-France Aubert and Roberta Cortopassi, eds., Portraits de l'Egypte romaine: Paris, Musee du Louvre, 5 octobre 1998, 4 janvier 1999, exh. cat. (Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1998),

Jacques-Edouard Berger, L'Oeil et L'Eternitie: portraits romains d'Egypte (Paudex, Switzerland: Editions de Fontainemore, 1977), 216

Klaus Parlasca, Ritratti di Mummie. Reportorio d'Arte dell'Egitto Greco-Romano, Serie B, 3 vols. (Palermo, Italy: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1969),

William H. Peck, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1967), 36

Klaus Parlasca, Mumienportrats und Verwandte Denkmaler (Weisbaden, Germany: Steiner, 1966), 270

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

heads (representations), portraits

woman

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