Head of a Woman

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

4th-3rd century BCE

Greek

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Ancient Greek
Title: Head of a Woman
Place: Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 400 BCE–200 BCE
Medium: terracotta
Dimensions: 3.2 × 1.9 × 2.2 cm (1 1/4 × 3/4 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1889.336
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Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.

Francis H. Bacon (1856–1940), Boston; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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