Polychrome Funerary Statue of a Man | Yale University Art Gallery

1991–1786 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Painted wood with added polychrome.
Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 2 7/16 × 1 1/2 in. (21 × 6.2 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen
Accession Number: 1955.51.18
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Orginally from the Carnarvon collection brought for Meir in the early 1920s, and Meir dates the piece in 1850; Dikran Kelekian Collection, Lor Carnarvon Collection, and Meir collection; Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1955 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 257, ill

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 75, no. 39A, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

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