Head of a Woman

4th-3rd century BCE (Late Classical-Hellenistic)

7.1 cm 9 cm 9.5 cm

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Early Italian cultures decorated their buildings with sculpture made of terracotta. The head retains traces of its original colors: white for the skin and red for the hair, with gilding on the diadem (crown).

Sculpture

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Madame E. Warneck [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Madame E. Warneck Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1905, no. 328; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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