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Herm bust of Dionysos
Herm bust of Dionysos

Herm bust of Dionysos

1st or 2nd century A.D.
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Carrara in northwest Italy
DimensionsHeight: 26 cm (10 1/4 in.)
Credit LineThe Benjamin and Lucy Rowland Fund, Gift of E. D. B. Vermeule, and Gift of Earle W. Carr
Accession number1979.523
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy date unknown: Larz Anderson Collection, Brookline, Mass. (said to have been acquired in Italy after the Civil War); Isabel Anderson Collection, Brookline Mass.; by about 1949: Earle W. Carr Collection (who said in 1979 that he acquired it from the collection of Larz and Isabel Anderson about 30 years ago); purchased by MFA from Earle W. Carr, November 14, 1979