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Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath

Ancient Egyptian · Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century

Provenance

Ownership history

Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871- 1964), Paris, London, and Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Art Institute of Chicago, Grave Goods from Ancient Cultures, November 19, 1991–May 17, 1992, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt after Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013–July 27, 2014, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994-February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, October 25, 2013- August 24, 2017.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Literature

Published references

Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 161(ill.), 162.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 9.
Cornelius C. Vermeule III, “Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections Open to the Public: A Survey of Important Monumental Likenesses in Marble and Bronze Which Have Not Been Published Extensively,” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, 2 (1964), p. 103.
Klaus Parlasca, Mumienporträts und verwandte Denkmäler (Steiner, 1966), pp. 42, 176n.
Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts: Chronologie und kultureller Kontext (Mainz: von Zabern, 1996), pp. 92, 102, 107, 122, 186, pl. 24.
David L. Thompson, “Four ‘Fayum’ Portraits in the Getty Museum,” in J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 2 (1975), p. 92.
Klaus Parlasca, Ritratti di mummie, Repertorio d’arte dell’Egitto greco-romano, ed. A. Adriani. Series B vol. 2 (L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1977), p. 61, no. 373, pl. 90, fig. 3.
Louise Berge, “Two ‘Fayum’ Portraits,” in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 72, 6 (Nov.–Dec. 1978), pp. 1–4, cover (ill.).
Emily Teeter, “Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago,” in The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1994), p. 31 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures from the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), p. 69 (ill.).
Klaus Parlasca, Ritratti di mummie, Repertorio d’arte dell’Egitto greco-romano, ed. A. Adriani. Series B vol. 4 (L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003), p. 160.
Robert S. Nelson, "The Art collecting of Emily Crane Chadbourne," in To Inspire and Instruct: A History of Medieval Art In Midwestern Museums, edited by Christina Nielsen (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp. 137, 224.

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