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Portrait of a Woman
Roman

Title

Portrait of a Woman

Artist

Unknown Artist (Roman)

Date

3rd century CE

Medium

marble

Dimensions

height: 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)

Classification

Sculpture

Credit Line

Gift of Harold W. Parsons

Object Number

1956.125

On View

On view

Provenance

With Bruno Tartaglia, Rome [1];
His sale to Harold Woodbury Parsons (1882–1967), Rome, by May 24, 1956;
Gift of Harold Woodbury Parsons to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1956.

[1] Letter from Harold Woodbury Parsons to Eugene Kingman, June 5, 1956, Joslyn Art Museum, Object File.

Exhibition History

None.

Published References

History Today, January 1960, 27, 31, (repro.).

Dorothy Burgess, “Portrait Sculpture Advanced in Roman Empire,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, February 8, 1962, 36, (repro.).