1962.321: Feline Head
Architectural Elements
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1962.321
- People
-
Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Feline Head
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Grotesque Head
- Classification
- Architectural Elements
- Work Type
- architectural element
- Date
- c. 1125
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/228402
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- 13 x 16 x 21.5 cm (5 1/8 x 6 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Lucy Wallace Porter, From her husband?, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1962. It is unclear if Mrs. Porter acquired this herself; it is likely that it was part of the collection of her husband, Arthur Kingsley Porter.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Lucy Wallace Porter
- Accession Year
- 1962
- Object Number
- 1962.321
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections: X: The Fogg Art Museum: III: Spain, Italy, the Low Countries, and Addenda", GESTA (1973), vol. XII, no. 1/2, addenda, no. 3, repr.
- Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 31, fig. 188
- Christine Smith, ed., Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000, exh. cat., George Braziller (New York, NY, 2000), p. 52
Verification Level
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