Standing Human Figure

300 B.C.

Stone

16.2 × 7 × 3 cm (6 3/8 × 2 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen

1960.44.3

Geography:

Mexico

Status:

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

Culture:

Mexico, Mezcala, Guerrero

Period:

Late Formative Period

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance:

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1960 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography:

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 92–93, 254, no. 168, fig. 86.

Richard Brettell, “Mezcala Stone Sculpture in the Olsen Collection,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35, no. 1 (Summer 1974): 16–17, fig. 4.

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