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Head of a Woman
(Roman Empire )
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
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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.
Geographies
Italy, Lazio (Latium) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
3 9/16 x 2 13/16 x 3 3/4 in. (9 x 7.1 x 9.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.310