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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.

Exhibition History

None.

Published References

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