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Female Portrait Head And Bust
(Roman Empire )
This white marble portrait head is set into a porphyry bust. The woman wears a knot at the back of her head, with curls in front of a stephané at front. There is plaster between the head and bust.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [possibly Brummer inv. no. P427]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Roman Empire (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H to head, without stephané: 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1924
Location in Museum
Not on view
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.
23.149