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Personification of the City of Metz
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The subject of this bust is shown frontally with her head turned to the right. The figure wears a crown of broken fortress walls and a cord draped over her shoulder and underneath her left bust. There is a wound mark under the nape of her neck.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Amos Judd and Son, Inc., Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, September 1983, by purchase.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1983
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
27.591