Portrait of an old woman

Artist: Unknown

ca. A.D. 280–340

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Marble

Dimensions

13 7/8 × 9 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (35.2 × 24.13 × 26.67 cm)

Credit Line

Ruth Elizabeth White Fund

Accession Number

2008.69.1

Culture

Roman

Period

3rd–4th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Purportedly acquired by Ugo Donati, Molinazzo di Monteggio, Ticino, Switzerland, late 1950s–early 1960s [see note 1]; by descent to his grandson, Stefano Donati (Donati Arte Classica), Lugano, Switzerland; sold to Phoenix Ancient Art, S.A., Geneva, by about 2000; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2008

Note 1: Attestation from Stefano Donati, Donati Arte Classica, Lugano, Switzerland, February 28, 2008, copy in accession file

This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson and Jerome Jordan Pollitt, Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Art Gallery, 2022), 100, 222, no. 81, ill
  • "Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 143, ill
  • Hartwin Brandt, Wird auch silbern mein Haar : Eine Geschichte des Alters in der Antike (München: C.H. Beck, 2002), 199–200, fig. 67
  • Hans Jucker and Dietrich Willers, Gesichter: Griechische und römische Bildnisse aus Schweizer Besitz, exh. cat. (Bern: Archa¨ologisches Seminar der Universita¨t Bern, 1983), 194-95, no. cat. no. 81, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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