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Explore image in Subject: Cn. Pompeius Magnus
Portrait of Cn. Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), modern forgery
20th century
Thasian marble
28.5 × 23.5 × 13 cm (11 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
Gift of Elizabeth G. Field in memory of Frank E. Brown
1988.40.1
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Italian
Period:
20th century
Classification:
Sculpture
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:
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.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
