Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait Head of a Young Woman
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- Date
- 130-40
- Medium
- Marble
- Culture
- Roman Empire
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 11611
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This elegant portrait is the intentional likeness of a young woman in her early twenties who had a delicate brow, high cheekbones, wide-set eyes, a bow-shaped mouth, and a prominent chin. Her long tresses are arranged in an elaborate hairstyle, fashionable at different times during the imperial period, in which the hair was parted in the center, combed in waves over the forehead, and plaited into braids that were artfully wrapped around the head like a turban. Broken off at the neck, it was once part of a larger statue.
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- Credit line
- Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Provenance
- With Byron Zoumboulakis, Geneva, prior to 1960 [according to C.C. Vermeule, Zoumboulakis previously offered the portrait head to MFA Boston, letter in curatorial file]. H.M. Calmann, London, by 1960; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1960.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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