(William E. Mansour)
1950-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Seated Man, between 2565 and 2420 BCE
- Egyptian
Polychromed limestone
- Overall: 15 1/4 × 5 1/8 × 11 inches (38.7 × 13 × 27.9 cm)
Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund
50.74
On View
- Egyptian: To Preserve and Protect
Department
Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Details
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.
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.).
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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