Fragment of a Fresco with the Poet as King

Description This fresco is brown, white, blue and yellow, and within a border depicts a man and woman standing. Skene is kneeling and writing with the left hand under a mask. This figure is copied from the "Poet as King" fresco from Herculaneum in Naples. Under the paint, there are traces of other colors.

Provenance Joseph Brummer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922