Portrait of a Boy
Roman
Title
Portrait of a Boy
Artist
Unknown Artist (Roman)
Date
1st century CE
Medium
marble
Dimensions
height: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
1952.33
On View
On view
Provenance
Monsignor Giuseppe de Ciccio (1873–1953), Naples, by February 21, 1952;
Purchased from the collection of Monsignor Giuseppe de Ciccio, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1952.
Purchased from the collection of Monsignor Giuseppe de Ciccio, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1952.
Exhibition History
None.
Published References
Dorothy Burgess, “Portrait Sculpture Advanced in Roman Empire,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, February 8, 1962, 36, (repro.).