id: 130419 accession number: 1953.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.18 updated: 2025-04-16 18:11:30.673000 Nereid (Sea-Nymph) from a Hanging, late 300s–400s CE. Byzantine Empire (Egypt). Dyed wool, undyed linen; overall: 66.7 x 65.4 cm (26 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.); mounted: 76.8 x 75.6 x 2.9 cm (30 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1953.18 title: Nereid (Sea-Nymph) from a Hanging title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 300s–400s CE creation date earliest: 375 creation date latest: 499 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Byzantine Empire (Egypt) technique: dyed wool, undyed linen department: Textiles collection: T - Coptic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 66.7 x 65.4 cm (26 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.); Mounted: 76.8 x 75.6 x 2.9 cm (30 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art and Anatomy opening date: 1960-05-08T04:00:00 Art and Anatomy. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (May 8-June 6, 1960). title: Coptic Art opening date: 1963-04-01T05:00:00 Coptic Art. Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (organizer) (April 1-July 31, 1963). title: Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation opening date: 2001-11-02T05:00:00 Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 2001-October 15, 2002). title: Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106 opening date: 2010-03-31T04:00:00 Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 31, 2010-April 1, 2011). title: Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106 opening date: 2015-03-03T05:00:00 Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 3, 2015-April 11, 2016). title: Coptic Textile Rotation - Gallery 106 opening date: 2020-11-05T05:00:00 Coptic Textile Rotation - Gallery 106. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 5, 2020-August 2, 2021). title: Africa & Byzantium opening date: 2023-11-13T05:00:00 Africa & Byzantium. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (April 14-July 21, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Anatomy in Art. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City. MO (May 8-June 6, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-05-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Koptische Kunst,Christentum am Nil, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (April 1-July 31, 1963); Kunsthaus, Zürich (October 31, 1963-January, 15, 1964).', 'opening_date': '1963-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Früchristliche und koptische Kunst, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria (February 15-May 15, 1964).', 'opening_date': '1964-02-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': "L'art Copte, Petit Palais, Paris, France (June 15-September 15, 1964).", 'opening_date': '1964-06-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums, From Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan (September 11-October 17, 1976); The Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (November, 2-December 5, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-09-11T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Mme Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Archaeology 6, no. 4 (1953): 195-202. page number: p. 199, cover illus url: www.jstor.org/stable/41663172. Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Late Hellenistic Tapestry from Egypt." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 41, no. 1 (January 1954), pp. 4–6. page number: Mentioned: pp. 4–6 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141926 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. 65 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n26 Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: p. 7 url: Kunsthaus Zürich. Christentum am Nil; Koptische Kunst; Nachtrag. 1963. page number: pl. VI, no. 242 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. 30 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n54 Bourguet, R. du. 1966. "La technique des étoffes coptes en rapport avec leur dotation". Bulletin De Liaison Du Centre International D'études Des Textiles Anciens. 17-30. page number: p. 17 url: 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. 30 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n52 Volbach, Wolfgang Fritz, and Jüri Gabriel. Early Decorative Textiles. London: Hamlyn, 1974. page number: pl. 9 url: Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan. Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums from Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art. Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 1976. page number: Cat. No. 6 url: 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. 36 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n56 Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène. Coptic Fabrics. Paris, France: Adam Biro, 1990. page number: p. 71 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.18/1953.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.18/1953.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.18/1953.18_full.tif