About the Artwork
Head of a Bearded Man
between 146 and 211 CE
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Roman
Unknown
Marble
Overall: 18 1/8 × 9 1/4 × 9 1/2 inches (46 × 23.5 × 24.1 cm) Overall (head): 11 × 9 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (27.9 × 23.5 × 21 cm) Overall (base): 6 × 8 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches (15.2 × 22.2 × 22.2 cm)
Sculpture
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Holden
27.222
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Augustus Frank, Rome, Italy)
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Holden [Lynelle]
1927-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 3 (1927): p. 30 (ill.).
Paintings and Sculptures Illustrated, A Companion to the Catalogue, third ed. DIA, 1943, p. 35, (ill.).
Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture. DIA, 1949, p. 25.
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Roman, Head of a Bearded Man, between 146 and 211 CE, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Holden, 27.222.
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