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Portrait Head of a Boy with Fillet

Artist Unknown

DateLate 1st century BCE–1st century CE

MediumMarble

Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 7 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 5 1/2 in. (19.1 × 14.6 × 14 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. George W. Paschal

Object numberG.72.21.1

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ProvenanceProvenience unknown. Reportedly excavated in Greece [1]; private collection, Switzerland [2] or the Netherlands [3]; [Jeanette G. Brun, Zurich, by 1971]; sold to NCMA, 1972.

[1] Per Brun, see letter to Moussa Domit dated December 27, 1972 (see file).
[2] Per Brun, see letter to Moussa Domit dated December 6. 1972.
[3] Per Brun, see undated letter to Mary Ellen Soles in response to Soles' letter dated February 28, 2001, where Brun indicates a Dutch collection, not a Swiss one for this small marble head.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.

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