Object details
Accession number
SG8e1
Primary Creator
Roman
Full title
Woman in the Costume of the Theater
Creation Date
about 220 CE
Provenance
Installed on the pediment of a fountain (museum nos. SGe3 and SGe4) with two other sculptures (museum nos. SG-8e3 and SG-8e4) at a post-antique date.
Possibly from a home in Zagarolo, near Rome.
The fountain was purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner through the art historian and archaeologist Richard Norton (1872-1918) on 28 October 1901.
Dimensions
85.7 cm (33 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Marble from western Asia Minor
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Outside
Bibliography
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 15-16, no. 18. (as Roman, about 220 CE)
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