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Fresco panel

about A.D. 14–62
Findspotnear Pompeii, Campania, Italy
Medium/TechniqueFresco
DimensionsHeight x width: 149 x 69.5 cm ( 58 11/16 x 27 3/8 in.)
Credit LineRichard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession number25.46
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Provenance1901/1902, excavated by Gennaro Matrone (d. 1927) in a room on the south side of the peristyle of the Contrada Bottaro Villa, about a half-mile south of Pompeii; ownership granted by the Italian State to Gennaro Matrone. October 30, 1924, sold by Prof. U. Marcellini (dealer), Naples, to Brummer Gallery, New York (stock nos. P1429-P1432); 1925, sold by Brummer Gallery to the MFA for $5805 [see note]. (Accession Date: March 5, 1925)

NOTE: MFA accession nos. 25.44 – 25.47 were purchased together for this amount.
Fresco panel
A.D. 14–62
Fresco with head of a goddess
about 1st century A.D.
about A.D. 14–62
Fresco panel
about A.D. 14–62
Fresco panel
about A.D. 14–62
Fresco panel
about A.D. 14–62
about A.D. 14–62
about A.D. 14–62
about A.D. 14–62
about A.D. 14–62