Details
AN EGYPTIAN ENCAUSTIC ON WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED MAN
HADRIANIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
12 ¼ in. (31.1 cm.) long
Provenance
Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920), Berlin; thence by descent to his daughter, Felicia Lachmann-Mosse.
Seized by the Nazi Party in 1933.
Kunstsammlung Rudolf Mosse, Berlin; Rudolph Lepke Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 29-30 May 1934, lot 158 (part).
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), author of All's Quiet on the Western Front, and his wife Paulette Goddard-Remarque, Germany and Switzerland, 1934-1979.
The University of Zurich, acquired from the above, 1979.
Restituted to the Mosse Art Restitution Project, Berlin, 2015.
Literature
R.D. Gempeler, Werke der Antike im Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, 1976, p. 110, no. 4, fig. 30d.
B. Borg, Mumienporträts, Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz, 1996, p. 72.
K. Parlasca and H.G. Frenz, Ritratti di Mummie, Serie B -Volume IV, Repertorio d'Arte dell'Egitto Greco-Romano, Rome, 2003, no. 379, pl. IX.
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