About the Artwork
Female Portrait with Halo
between 2nd and 4th century CE
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Egyptian
Coptic
Wool only, very lustrous
Overall: 6 3/8 × 4 3/4 inches (16.2 × 12.1 cm) Mount: 14 5/8 × 12 5/8 inches (37.1 × 32.1 cm)
Textiles
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
35.103
Public Domain
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Provenance
excavated in Egypt.(Marguerite Mallon-Nadud);
1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Weibel, Adele Coulin. "A Fragment of Hellenistic Wool Tapestry," Bulletin of the DIA 15, no. 6 (1936).
Pagan and Christian Egypt, Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century AD. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1941, cat. no. 231 (ill.).
Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Exh. cat., The Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, April 1947, p. 160, no. 820, pl. 110.
Weibel, Adele Coulin. "Hellenistic and Coptic Textiles," Art Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2 (1948): pp. 106-115.
2000 Years of Tapestry Weaving. Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum, Baltimore Museum of Art. 1951-1952, no 3.
Weibel, Adele Coulin. 2000 Years of Textiles. 1952, (frontispiece color), cat. no. 1, p. 75.
Beckwith, John. Ciba Rundschau, vol. 13, no. 145 (August 1959): p. 13, p. 18 (ill.).
"Arte Copta," Sele Arte, Anno XI, no. 65 (September-October 1963): p. 47, no. 70 (ill.).
Rivista dell' Istituo Nazonale d'Archeologia e Storia dell' Arte, New Series, vol. 11-12. 1963, p. 134, p. 61.
Koptische Kunst, Christentum am Nil. Exh. cat., Villa Hugel. Essen, Germany, May 3-September 22, 1963, p. 305, no. 262 (ill.).
Koptische Kunst, Christentum am Nil. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zurich. Switzerland, November 1963-January 1964, p. 95, no. 238 (ill.).
Fruhchristliche und Koptische Kunst. Exh. cat., Ausstellung in der Akademie der bildendung Kunst. Vienna, Austria, March 11-May 3, 1964, p. 185, no. 560, (ill., p. 101).
Volbach, W. Fritz. Early Decorative Textiles. Paul Hamlyn, Middlesex, England, 1969, no. 10, p. 28, p. 27 (color ill.).
The Art of the Antique. Exh. cat., Rose Art Museum. Waltham, Massachusetts, December 18, 1968-February 16, 1969, cat. no. 63.
Granger-Taylor, Hero. "Coptic textiles in the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA 79, no. 1/2 (2005): pp. 47-59.
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Coptic, Egyptian, Female Portrait with Halo, between 2nd and 4th century CE, wool only, very lustrous. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 35.103.
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