Harvard Art Museums > 1922.72: Head of a Young Girl 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"Head of a Young Girl , 1922.72,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292323. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1922.72 Title Head of a Young Girl Classification Sculpture Work Type head, sculpture Date 4th century BCE Period Classical period, Late, to Early Hellenistic Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292323 Physical Descriptions Medium Pentelic marble Dimensions 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of L. Melano Rossi Accession Year 1922 Object Number 1922.72 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@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. Descriptions Published Catalogue Text: Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums , written 199027 Greek Head of a Young Girl The nose and the lower left cheek are broken and rubbed away. The surfaces are very weathered. The hair behind the ears and at the back of the head is finished roughly, the hair above and in front of the ears less so but still rough. The young girl has her plaited hair arranged in a low knot around the crown of her head. The symmetrical waves above the forehead are divided in the center and are pulled back tightly above the ears. This head brings to mind the statues of young girls of the fourth century BC found in the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron in Attica (Orlandos, 1958, pp. 36-37, figs. 38-39; Ruhfel, 1984, pp. 221-222, pl. 91). Similar statues have been found at Delphi and elsewhere in Greece (Collignon, 1911, pp. 192-196, especially fig. 122, Delphi). A head of a young girl from a funerary monument has the hair arranged in similar fashion and has been dated after 350 BC and before the curtailment of monumental grave monuments in Attica, 317-316 BC. The hair is worked slightly more decisively and the face is slightly more pronounced. The head was bought in Athens by Ludwig Curtius in 1906 and is now in the Royal Ontario Museum (The Royal Ontario Museum, 1983, p. 22, no. s-28). Cornelius Vermeule and Amy Brauer Publication History Ancient Greece: Life and Art, The Newark Museum (Newark, NJ, 1980), no. 102, "Head of Arctos" Cornelius C. Vermeule III and Amy Brauer, Stone Sculptures: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 42, no. 27 Exhibition History Ancient Greece: Life and Art, The Newark Museum, 02/02/1980 - 03/16/1980 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 Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
