Harvard Art Museums > 1937.39: Crowned Head of an Elder Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Crowned Head of an Elder (Unidentified Artist) , 1937.39,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Sep 07, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/221555. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
