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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.321
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Feline Head
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Grotesque Head
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
c. 1125
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228402

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
13 x 16 x 21.5 cm (5 1/8 x 6 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lucy Wallace Porter, From her husband?, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1962. It is unclear if Mrs. Porter acquired this herself; it is likely that it was part of the collection of her husband, Arthur Kingsley Porter.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Lucy Wallace Porter
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.321
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections: X: The Fogg Art Museum: III: Spain, Italy, the Low Countries, and Addenda", GESTA (1973), vol. XII, no. 1/2, addenda, no. 3, repr.
  • Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 31, fig. 188
  • Christine Smith, ed., Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000, exh. cat., George Braziller (New York, NY, 2000), p. 52

Verification Level

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