Harvard Art Museums > 2022.277: Seated Woman Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Seated Woman , 2022.277,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 29, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/377048. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2022.277 Title Seated Woman Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture, statuette Date c. 500 BCE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Attica Period Archaic period, Late, to Early Classical Culture Greek Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/377048 Location Location Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Painted terracotta Technique Mold-made Dimensions H. 14 × W. 7.8 × D. 8 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin [1], Paris, (by 1890-1911), sold; to William A. Clark [2], New York, (by 1911-1925), bequest; to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., (1926-2018) [3], transferred; to American University Museum, Washington, D.C., (2018-2021), sold; [through Sands of Time, Washington, D.C.]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022. 1. Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin (1850-1916) 2. William Andrews Clark (1839-1925) 3. Following the closure of the Corcoran Gallery in 2014, its collections were physically transferred to the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.); the Corcoran Board of Trustees retained ownership until the collections were officially transferred to and accessioned into other museums’ collections (in 2018, in this case). Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Kelekian Fund Accession Year 2022 Object Number 2022.277 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Woman seated on a chair or throne, her head covered and her hands resting on her knees. Her long garment now appears white, with a red stripe running down the center; traces of folds indicated in dark paint can be seen on the proper right upper arm. There are remains of what appears to have been a necklace. Bright blue paint survives on the veil that covers the woman's head and falls over her shoulders, and black paint on the four rows of curls above her forehead. Long black strands of hair once framed the neck. Atop the curls sits a bright red diadem. The woman's eyebrows and irises were rendered in dark paint; a spot of bright red pigment can be seen at the mouth. The sides of the chair appear to have been white, while red ocher was applied over the white slip in the top and front sections. The back of the chair is still covered in accretions that were fully or partly removed from the rest of the figure. The front of the figure was formed in a mold. The back is flat and the lower part of the figure hollowed out. The clay is orange-colored and quite soft, indicating that the statuette was made in Attica. Numerous terracottas of this type have been found in Athens, but they were exported throughout the Greek world, as well. The finds from the Athenian Acropolis suggest that the seated woman represented a goddess, likely Athena. The terracottas were also deposited in graves, however, and mortal women could be represented in the same pose and similar attire. Commentary For a discussion of comparable Athenian terracottas of seated women see: Richard Nicholls, “Two Groups of Archaic Attic Terracottas,” in The Eye of Greece: Studies in the Art of Athens, ed. Donna Kurtz and Brian Sparkes, 89–122 (Cambridge 1982). Barbara Vierneisel-Schlörb, Die figürlichen Terrakotten I: Spätmykenisch bis späthellenistisch, Kerameikos: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, vol. 15 (Munich 1997) 23–35, pls. 15–23. Friedrich Wilhelm Hamdorf, Die figürlichen Terrakotten der Staatlichen Antikensammlungen München, vol. 1 (Munich 2014), 82–85. Publication History Corcoran Gallery of Art, ed., Illustrated handbook of the W. A. Clark collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 1928), p.100, no. 2519 Corcoran Gallery of Art, ed., Illustrated handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 1932), p. 106, no. 2519 Exhibition History A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/28/2023 - 05/07/2023 Future Minded: New Works in the Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/01/2024 - 07/21/2024 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
