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Portrait Bust of a Girl

c. 250–75 CE

Italy, Roman

Medium
marble
Measurements
Overall: 52.1 cm (20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.288
Public Domain
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Location
103 Roman
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This portrait of a young girl was thought for many years to represent a boy.

Description

This portrait bust depicts a young child, perhaps three or four years old, with soft, fleshy cheeks and delicate features. The neck is slight, the skull relatively large and round, with closely cropped hair indicated by fine incisions. Although this hairstyle may appear masculine today, the child wears a high-belted chiton, a long garment usually worn by women and girls. Together with the rope running diagonally across the chest, this suggests a female funerary portrait, perhaps showing the deceased in the guise of the huntress Diana.
Marble bust of a child looking slightly down and to our right with closely cropped hair conveyed in fine incisions on their round head. A tunic falls in folds over their shoulders, belted high on their chest and with a rope running diagonally across their chest before the bust ends resting on a smaller, rectangular plinth connected to a larger, circular plinth.

Portrait Bust of a Girl

c. 250–75 CE

Italy, Roman

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