Female Portrait with Halo

between 2nd and 4th century CE

Coptic, Egyptian

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About the Artwork

Title Female Portrait with Halo

Artwork Date between 2nd and 4th century CE

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Egyptian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Coptic

Medium Wool only, very lustrous

Dimensions 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)

Classification Textiles

Department African Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 35.103

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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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Published References

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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Credit Line for Reproduction

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.