About the Artwork
Portrait of a Woman
3rd century CE
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Roman
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Marble
Overall: 9 3/8 × 7 × 8 inches (23.8 × 17.8 × 20.3 cm)
Sculpture
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Gift of P. F. Nesi
38.41
Public Domain
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Provenance
P. F. Nesi;1938-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Rathbone, Perry T. "Three Roman Portrait Heads," Bulletin of the DIA 17, no. 8 (May 1938): 68–70, pp. 68–69.
Roman Portraits. Exh. Cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, 1961, pp. 62–63, no. 27 (ill.).
Vermeule, Cornelius C. "Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections Open to the Public," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, no. 2 (1964): p. 104.
The Art of the Late Antique from American Collections. Exh. cat., Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Boston, 1968, p. 46, no. 3.
Gazda, Elaine K. Roman Portraiture: Ancient & Modern Revivals. Exh. cat., Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Ann Arbor, 1977, pp. 26–27, no. 9 (ill.).
Vermeule, Cornelius C. Greek and Roman Sculpture in America. Berkeley, 1981, p. 357, no. 308 (ill.).
Portraits and Propaganda: Faces of Rome. Exh. cat., List Art Center. Providence, 1989, pp. 138–139, no. 131 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Roman, Portrait of a Woman, 3rd century CE, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of P. F. Nesi, 38.41.
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