Fayum Portrait

3rd century

Encaustic on wood

15 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (38.7 x 21 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection and Hagop Kevorkian

46.51

Provenance: [Hagop Kevorkian, New York]; partial purchase and partial gift (1/3 of purchase price) from Mr. Kevorkian to Seattle Art Museum / Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, Seattle, Washington, February 8, 1946

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryDetroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, 1967

Published ReferencesZaloscer, Hilde, Portrats aus dem Wustensand: die Mumienbildnisse aus der Oase Fayum, Wien - Munchen, 1961

Detroit Institute of Arts, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, catalogue, p. 22 #16 and p. 26 #16, 1967

Thompson, David L. 'Fayum Portraits' in West Coast Collections, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1976.

Berger, Jacques-Edouard and Creux, Rene, L'Oeil and L'Eternite Portraits Romains D'Egypte, Paudex: 1977, pp. 80, 183, 218

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