About the Artwork
The Seated Man is a representation of someone who lived in the Pyramid Age, during the Old Kingdom. Unfortunately, we do not know his name or titles because the statue has no inscription.
Seated Man
between 2565 and 2420 BCE
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Egyptian
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Polychromed limestone
Overall: 15 1/4 × 5 1/8 × 11 inches (38.7 × 13 × 27.9 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund
50.74
Public Domain
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Provenance
(William E. Mansour);1950-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.
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Bulletin of the DIA 30, no. 2 (1950-51): p. 52.
Bulletin of the DIA 31, no. 3-4 (1951-52): p. 59.
Peck, W.H. "The Present State of Egyptian Art in Detroit," Connoiseur (December 1970): pp. 265, 269.
Peck, William H. "Egyptian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts," American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter, no. 122 (Summer 1983): p. 5.
Peck, William H. "Egypt at the Detroit Institute of Arts: A History of the Growth of the Collection," KMT vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 1991): pp. 15, 16, 68, (ill.).
Henshaw, Julia P., ed. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 102 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Egyptian, Seated Man, between 2565 and 2420 BCE, polychromed limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund, 50.74.
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