Provenance
Said to be from the necropolis at Golgoi.
Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904), first director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1868-1873.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acquired from the above, 1874-1876.
Cypriote & Classical Antiquities, Duplicates of the Cesnola and Other Collections, pt. 1, Anderson Galleries, New York, 30-31 March 1928, lot 287.
Armen G. Avedisian (1926-2000), Hinsdale, Il., acquired by 1970.
The Art Institute of Chicago, gifted from the above, 1971 (Acc. no. 1971.457; Gift of Mr. Armen G. Avedisian in Memory of Karekin Der Avedisian).
Literature
L.P. di Cesnola, A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, vol. 1, Boston, 1885, pl. XCIV, no. 633.
C.C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada, Berkeley, 1981, p. 76, no. 47.
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