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Portrait Head of a Boy with Fillet
Portrait Head of a Boy with Fillet

Portrait Head of a Boy with Fillet

Artist Unknown
DateLate 1st century BCE–1st century CE
MediumMarble
DimensionsH. 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. George W. Paschal
Object numberG.72.21.1
On View
On view
ProvenanceReportedly excavated in Greece (per Brun, see file); private collection, Switzerland or the Netherlands (per Brun); with Jeanette G. Brun, Zürich, Switzerland, by 1971; sold to NCMA, 1972.Published ReferencesArt Society News 1, no. 2 (Summer 1973), illus.

Gazette des Beaux-Arts no. 339 (February 1974), illus. 102.

Zsolt Kiss, L'Iconographie des Princes Julio-Claudiens au Temps d'Auguste et de Tiber. Warsaw (1975), 64, illus. fig. 125.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), listed 51.

H. G. Frenz, “Zur Benennung des ‘Mainzer Kopfes.’” Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 12: 378 n. 27 (1982).

Pollini, The Portraiture of Gaius and Lucius Caesar (New York: Fordam University Press, 1987) 79-80, 86, 106 cat. no. 35, pl. 36.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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