Portrait of Cn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), modern forgery Artist: Unknown

20th century

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

Thasian marble

Dimensions

11 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 5 1/8 in. (28.5 × 23.5 × 13 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Elizabeth G. Field in memory of Frank E. Brown

Accession Number

1988.40.1

Culture

Italian

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Frank E. Brown, acquired in Rome in 1948; said to have been found during the subway excavations, in the Piazza dell'Esquilino in the diggings for the station behind Santa Maria Maggiore; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., on loan since 1963, acquired from the above, 1988.
Bibliography
  • "Discoveries from a Class on the Technical Study of Art," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2019), 88
  • Mimi Gardner Gates, "Director's Report 1988," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (Spring 1989), 121
  • John Coolidge and G. M. A. Hanfmann, eds., Ancient Art in American Private Collections: A Loan Exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, exh. cat. (Cambridge, Mass.: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1954), 29, no. 174, PL. LII, fig. 174
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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portraits

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