Fayum Portrait

1st century

Egyptian

Roman

Encaustic on wood

11 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (29.5 x 19.1 cm)

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection and Hagop Kevorkian

46.52

Provenance: Collection of Th. Graf, until 1930; (unknown, 1930-1946); [Hagop Kevorkian, New York, by 1946]; 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

Published ReferencesThompson, David L., Four 'Fayum Portraits' in the Getty Museum, in The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 2 (1975), pp. 85-92 (included in inventory, p. 92)

Parlasca, Klaus, Ritratti di Mummie, Repertorio d'arte dell'Egitto greco-romano, Serie B, Vol II, Rome, 1977, no. 455

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

Thompson, David L., A lost patchwork 'Fayum Portrait', in the American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 85 No. 4, Oct. 1981, p. 491-492.

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