About the Artwork
A King
between 2000 and 1788 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Carved stone
Overall: 6 1/2 × 6 5/16 × 3 9/16 inches (16.5 × 16 × 9 cm) Overall (from chin to brow): 1 3/4 inches (4.4 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Miss Constance Haass
31.68
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
by 1925 (Joseph Brummer Gallery, Paris, France and New York, New York, USA)
1925-1931, Lillian Henkel Haass [Mrs. Julius Haass] [1879-1960] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1931-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March 22, 1926-April 4,1926, pp. iv and xxxviii.
Aga-Oglu, Mehmet. "A Group of Egyptian Sculpture," Bulletin of the DIA 13, no. 3 (December 1931): pp. 26-27, (ill.) p.26.
Bulletin of the DIA 13, no. 5 (February 1932): p. 60 [list of 1931 gifts].
Image and Artifact: Ancient Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts Statewide Services Travelling Exhibition. Detroit, February 5, 1984-December 16, 1985, cat. no. 30, p. 8 (ill.).
Peck, William H. "Egypt at the Detroit Institute of Arts: A History of the Growth of the Collection," KMT vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 16, 68.
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Egyptian, A King, between 2000 and 1788 BCE, carved stone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass and Miss Constance Haass, 31.68.
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