Medium

Tempera on wood panel, probably oak. The portrait is shown against a bluish grey background. Set into the cloth wrappings of a mummy, covering the face of the deceased. The unpainted edge would have been covered by the mummy wrappings

Dimensions

9 5/8 × 3 3/4 × 3/16 in. (24.5 × 9.5 × 0.4 cm)

Credit Line

Ruth Elizabeth White Fund

Accession Number

2011.102.1

Culture
Period

Roman Period

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Augustus Pitt Rivers, Dorset, acquired from Reverend Chester Greville, August 7th, 1889.
George Pitt-Rivers, Dorset.
Property of Mrs. Stella Pitt-Rivers;
Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1984, lot 154.
With Jack Ogden, London, 1985;
With Charles Ede, London;
Sale, Christie's New York, June 9, 2011, Lot 66.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson and Jerome Jordan Pollitt, Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (New Haven, Conn: Yale University Art Gallery, 2022), 73, 214, no. 50, ill.
  • "Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 21, 2012), 26, ill.
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Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Subject

women

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