id: 130133 accession number: 1952.513 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.513 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:26.478000 Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the Blue Crown, c. 1391–1353 BCE. Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE). Granodiorite; overall: 39.1 x 30.3 x 27.7 cm (15 3/8 x 11 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1952.513 title: Head of Amenhotep III Wearing the Blue Crown title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1391–1353 BCE creation date earliest: -1391 creation date latest: -1353 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE) technique: granodiorite department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - New Kingdom type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 39.1 x 30.3 x 27.7 cm (15 3/8 x 11 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World opening date: 1992-07-01T04:00:00 Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 1-September 27, 1992); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (October 24, 1992-January 31, 1993); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 2-May 31, 1993). title: Exposition Akhénaton opening date: 2008-10-16T00:00:00 Exposition Akhénaton. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Genéve 3, Switzerland (organizer) (October 16, 2008-February 1, 2009); Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (February 26-June 14, 2009). title: Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt opening date: 2016-03-13T05:00:00 Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 13-June 12, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Pharaohs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Louvre. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh (11 Feb. 1996 - 14 April 1996).', 'opening_date': '1996-02-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Expostion Akhenaton. Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de la Genève, Switzerland (10/16/2008 - 2/1/2009); Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy (2/26/2009 - 6/14/2009).", 'opening_date': '2008-10-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Milton Girod, Chahaignes, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Vandier, Jacques. Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne. Paris: A. et J. Picard, 1952. page number: p. 318, 327; pl. CV, 5 url: Lee, Sherman E. "A Royal Portrait of Amenhotep III." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 8 (1953) page number: Mentioned: pp. 178-182; reproduced: p. 185, cover url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141902 "Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Archaeology 6, no. 4 (1953) pp. 195-202. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 195 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41663172 Sale Art 10 (January-February 1954) page number: p. 78 url: “Year’s Best: 1953.” ARTnews 52 (February 1954): p. 48. page number: Mentioned: p. 48 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n15 Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: The Museum, 1958. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: cat. 217 url: https://archive.org/details/LeonardCHanna/page/n125 Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: p. 12 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963. page number: p. 7, pl. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n4 Sherman E. Lee. "The Art Museum and Antiquity" Apollo 77, no. 22 (December 1963) page number: p. 435, fig. 1 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n25 Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: pl. 2 url: Christensen, Erwin O. A Guide to Art Museums in the United States. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968. page number: p. 168, fig. 353 url: Cooney, John D. "Amarna Art in the Cleveland Museum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 1 (1968) page number: p. 4, fig. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152189 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n23 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n34 Johnson, Mark M. "An Introduction to the Art of Egypt" Arts and Activities 83, no. 2 (March 1978) page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 38, fig. 7 url: Silver, Adele Z. The Cleveland Museum of Art Guide to the Galleries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: p. 9, fig. 8 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 1983. page number: p. 9 url: Müller, Maya. Die Kunst Amenophis' III. und Echnatons. Basel: Verlag für Ägyptologie, 1988. page number: p. IV-9 url: Vandersleyen, Claude. "Les Deux Jeunesses d'Amenhotep III" Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie (BSFE) 111 (1988) page number: p. 23, fig. 14 url: Berman, Lawrence Michael. The Art of Amenhotep III: Art Historical Analysis : Papers Presented at the International Symposium Held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 20-21 November 1987. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1990. page number: pl. 22, fig. 14 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n20 Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Morrell Bryan, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Elisabeth Delange. Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992. page number: Cat. No. 11, Cover and pl. 12 url: KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt. 3, no. 2 (Summer 1992) page number: p. 1, 14 url: Kozloff, Arielle P. and Betsy M. Bryan. "Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World" Minerva 3, no. 4 (July/August 1992) page number: p. 21, fig. 2 url: Schaire, Jeffrey, "Amenhotep," Arts and Antiques 9, no. 7 (September 1992) page number: p. 46, cover url: Delange, E. "Egypt's Dazzling Sun, Amenhotep III and His World Cleveland" Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie (BSFE) 125 (October 1992). page number: p. 34, fig. 4 url: David, Elizabeth. "D'un Régne l'Autre," Connaissance des Arts, special issue 36 (1993) page number: p. 8, fig. 6 url: Delange, Elizabeth, "Aménophis III Redécou-Vert," Connaissance des Arts 493 (March 1993) page number: p. 41 url: "Exhibition of the Year," Apollo 139, no. 382 (December 1993) page number: p. 348 url: Berman, Lawrence Michael, and Bernadette Letellier. Pharaohs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Louvre. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Oxford University Press, 1996. page number: p. 57 url: Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Mentioned: p. 222-224; Reproduced: p. 222-223, Color: p. 52 url: Hornung, Erik. History of Ancient Egypt: An Introduction. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. page number: p. 95, cat. no. 30 url: Slattery, Tom. The Tragic End of the Bronze Age: A Virus Makes History. San Jose: Writers Club Press, 2000. page number: p. 125, fig. 7 url: Hornung, Erik, and Betsy Morrell Bryan. The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2002. page number: p. 63, Fig. 12 url: Bothmer, Bernard V., Madeleine E. Cody, Paul Edmund Stanwick, and Marsha Hill. Egyptian Art: Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer. 2004. page number: p. 450, Fig. 29.14 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 73 url: Vandenbeusch, Marie, Aude Semat, and Margaret Maitland. Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art ; London : The British Museum, 2016. page number: Mentioned pp. 58, 153; reproduced p. 59, fig. 14 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.513/1952.513_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.513/1952.513_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.513/1952.513_full.tif