1937.39: Crowned Head of an Elder

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.39

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Crowned Head of an Elder

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture

Date

1125-1150

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Parthenay

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/221555

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Limestone

Dimensions

27.6 x 14.5 x 19 cm (10 7/8 x 5 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
with base: 33.8 x 24.9 x 19 cm (13 5/16 x 9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

de Laroussilhe Brimo, Paris, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937. The Fogg paid $600.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund

Accession Year

1937

Object Number

1937.39

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. X: The Fogg Art Museum. II: The Rhône Valley, Provence, Languedoc, Western and Northern France", GESTA (1972), vol. XI, no. 2, p. 68, cat. no. 12, repr. b/w fig. 19
• Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 28, fig. 168
• Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940, exh. cat., Palmer Museum of Art (University Park, PA, 1996), p. 180
• The Limestone Sculpture Provenance Project, website, 2004
• Robert A. Maxwell and Lore Holmes, "The Dispersed Sculpture of Parthenay and the Contributions of Nuclear Science", Medieval Archaeology (2005), vol. XLIX, pp. 247-280, pp. 259, 263, 267, 268, 275, 277-78; repr. in b/w as fig. 12

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