id: 136482 accession number: 1960.56 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.56 updated: 2024-04-25 11:08:15.077000 Statue of Amenemhat III, c. 1859–1814 BCE. Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040–1648 BCE), Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat III (1860–1814 BCE). Granodiorite; overall: 51.2 x 19.8 x 18.4 cm (20 3/16 x 7 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1960.56 title: Statue of Amenemhat III title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1859–1814 BCE creation date earliest: -1859 creation date latest: -1814 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040–1648 BCE), Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat III (1860–1814 BCE) technique: granodiorite department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - Middle Kingdom type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 51.2 x 19.8 x 18.4 cm (20 3/16 x 7 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Supplementary Exhibition to Tutankhamun Treasures opening date: 1963-07-09T04:00:00 Supplementary Exhibition to Tutankhamun Treasures. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (July 9-September 1, 1963). title: Senusret III opening date: 2014-10-09T00:00:00 Senusret III. Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France (organizer) (October 9, 2014-January 26, 2015). title: Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom opening date: 2015-10-12T00:00:00 Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 12, 2015-January 24, 2016). 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). title: Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession opening date: 2023-04-01T04:00:00 Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Life and Art in Ancient Egypt. Detroit Institute of Arts, (9 July-1 September 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-07-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Pharaohs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Louvre. TheCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh (11 February 1996 - 14 April 1996)', 'opening_date': '1996-02-11T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris, France, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1960 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1960- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "Amenemhat III." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 9 (1960) page number: p. 205-11 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142416 The Art Quarterly. 23 (Autumn 1960) page number: p. 301 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” October 29, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0632 Peck, William, and Francis W. Robinson. Life and Art in Ancient Egypt Detroit Institute of Arts: 9.7.-1.9.1963. 1963. page number: p. 8, cat. no. 10 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Martha L. Carter. Egyptian Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1963. page number: p. 6, pl. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/EgyptianArt_80670/page/n7 Lee, Sherman E. "The Art Museum and Antiquity" Apollo 11, no. 22 (December 1963) page number: p. 436, fig. 2 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. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n26 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. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n24 Porter, Bertha, Rosalind L. B. Moss, Ethel W. Burney, Jaromir Malék, Diana Magee, Elizabeth Miles, Elizabeth Fleming, and Alison Hobby. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Vol. II. Theban Temples 1972. page number: p. 286 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. 13 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n33 Kozloff, Arielle P. "Guessing the Unseen from the Seen." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 9 (1979) page number: p. 345, fig. 23 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159651 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n18 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1983. page number: p. 7 url: Málek, Jaromír. Egypt: Ancient Culture, Modern Land. 1993. page number: p. 102 url: Berman, Lawrence M. "La Collection Egyptienne du Cleveland Museum of Art" Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie (BSFE) 134 (October 1995) page number: p. 24, fig. 5 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. 155-157; Reproduced: p. 155-157, color p. 48 url: Berman, Lawrence M., "New Look at Ancient Egypt", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 39 no. 01, January 1999 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1999-01/page/6 May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: no. 4, p. 9, 116 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: p. 77, 158; Reproduced: p. 76, fig. 39 url: Lisby, Darnell-Jamal. “Egyptomania: Fashion and the funeral.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 2 (2023): 4-7. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 7. url: "October at the CMA.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 3 (2023): 17. page number: Reproduced: P. 17. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.56/1960.56_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.56/1960.56_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.56/1960.56_full.tif