Head of a Woman

Description Early Italian cultures decorated their buildings with sculpture made of terracotta. The head retains traces of its original colors: white for the skin and red for the hair, with gilding on the diadem (crown).

Provenance Madame E. Warneck [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Madame E. Warneck Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1905, no. 328; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925