Description
Roman portraits of private individuals often imitated the hairstyle and other details of contemporary imperial portraits. This impressive example is modeled after likenesses of Emperor Gallienus (253-268 CE).
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
6/23/1961
Treatment
cleaned
7/06/1970
Treatment
cleaned
1/01/1992
Technical Report
other
2/04/1999
Treatment
cleaned; loss compensation
Provenance
Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Possibly Brummer inv. no. N140]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
