Marble head of a woman, from a grave relief Artist: Unknown

4th century B.C.

Ancient Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Marble

Dimensions

7 7/8 × 4 5/16 × 5 13/16 in. (20 × 10.9 × 14.82 cm)

Credit Line

Collection of Mary C. and James W. Fosburgh, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1935

Accession Number

1979.14.77a-b

Culture

Greek

Period

Late Classical

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
In the possession of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fosburgh by 1954: Exhibited in "Ancient Art in American Private Collections: A Loan Exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University," December 28, 1954-February 15, 1955 (exh. cat. Cambridge Mass., 1954), p. 27, cat. no. 156 (not illustrated)

The sculpture appears in two paintings that are now in the collection of the YUAG (1979.14.64 and 1979.14.66). Both paintings are signed and dated ("JF 67"). 1979.14.66 appears on the cover of an exhibition in 1968 of James Fosburgh's paintings at the Kennedy Gallery in New York.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 1979," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 1 (Fall 1980), 63, ill
  • 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), 27, no. 156
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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