Head of a boy
1st century A.D. (after a Hellenistic prototype)
Medium/TechniqueMarble, Dolomitic from the Greek island of Thasos
DimensionsHeight: 20.5 cm (8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge in memory of Delia Spencer Field
Accession number46.841
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceOctober 28-30, 1913, anonymous sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, lot 42 [see note 1]. About 1913, possibly sold by A. S. Drey, Munich, to Delia Spencer (Mrs. Marshall) Field (b. 1854 - d. 1937), Paris and Washington, DC [see note 2]; by inheritance to her niece, Catherine Spencer Eddy (Mrs. Albert J.) Beveridge (b. 1881 - d. 1970), Beverly Farms, MA; 1946, gift of Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 12, 1946)
NOTES:
[1] Thanks to Jörg Deterling for providing this reference. [2] Mrs. Field built her collection in Europe in the early twentieth century. She may have acquired this sculpture at the Helbing sale or shortly thereafter. An undated list of works of art that she purchased from A. S. Drey is annotated in a later hand with a description of this object.
NOTES:
[1] Thanks to Jörg Deterling for providing this reference. [2] Mrs. Field built her collection in Europe in the early twentieth century. She may have acquired this sculpture at the Helbing sale or shortly thereafter. An undated list of works of art that she purchased from A. S. Drey is annotated in a later hand with a description of this object.
about 2nd century A.D. (after a Hellenistic Greek type)
about A.D. 200
about A.D. 120
second half of 2nd century A.D.
A.D. 120–140
A.D. 117–138, after a Greek original of about 450–430 B.C.
2nd–early 3rd century A.D.
about A.D. 180–210
about A.D. 140
A.D. 117–138