id: 142385 accession number: 1966.20 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.20 updated: 2023-08-23 22:04:25.503000 Portrait Head of C. Cornelius Gallus (?), c. 30 BC. Egypt, Greco-Roman Period, Roman Empire. Marble; overall: 39 x 22 x 22.6 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1966.20 title: Portrait Head of C. Cornelius Gallus (?) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 30 BC creation date earliest: -40 creation date latest: -20 current location: 103 Roman creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Greco-Roman Period, Roman Empire technique: marble department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Roman type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 39 x 22 x 22.6 cm (15 3/8 x 8 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Egypt-Greece-Rome opening date: 2005-11-26T00:00:00 Egypt-Greece-Rome. Städelsches Kunstinstitut im Städtischen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, Franfurt am Main, Germany (organizer) (November 26, 2005-February 26, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 10 September-16 October 1966, Golden Anniversary Acquisitions, cat.: CMA Bulletin 53, no. 7 (September 1966), no. 5, illus. p. 185
Das Stadel/Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (11/26/2005 - 2/26/2006): "Egypt-Greece-Rome" --- PROVENANCE Levi de Benzion, Paris date: footnotes: citations: Said to have been found in the western Delta between Damanhur and Benha. Formerly in the collection of Moîse Levi de Benzion, Paris. Purchased from Michel Abemayor, New York date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Traces of red paint remain, especially in the hair. digital description: wall description: This highly individual portrait must have been made for a man of considerable importance. It may represent Gaius Cornelius Gallus, who lived c. 69-26 BC. After aiding Octavian in the war against Antony and Cleopatra, Gallus served as the first governor of Egypt. There he put down two rebellions, but soon fell into disgrace and exile, eventually committing suicide. The head was made to be inserted into a body, and has a flat back and top, suggesting it once wore a separately made fold of toga draped over it (in the fashion known as togatus capite velato, associated with high priests). Some scholars have suggested a later date for this portrait, perhaps in the reign of Nero or Claudius. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n48 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1966, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1425 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." ARTNews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-44, 62-64. page number: Mentioned: p. 32; Reproduced: p. 44 url: "The Cleveland Museum of Art Golden Anniversary," Archaeology 19.4 (1966), pp. 277-283. page number: Ill. on p. 278. url: Cooney, John D. "A Roman Imperial Head from Egypt." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 1 (1967): 17-21. page number: url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152135. 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. 24 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n46 Grimm, G. "Zu Marcus Antonius und C. Cornelius Gallus," Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts 85 (1970), pp. 158-170. page number: Abb. 1, 2, 4. 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. 28 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n48 Vermeule, Cornelius C. Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada. Malibu, Calif: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1981. page number: P. 280, cat. 237. url: Kiss, Zsolt, and Maria M. Berger. Etudes sur le portrait impérial romain en Egypte. Varsovie: Editions scientifiques de Pologne, 1984. page number: Pp. 45, 141 (figs. 76-77). 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: Reproduced: p.465; Mentioned: p. 465-6. url: Capasso, Mario, and Paolo Radiciotti. Il ritorno di Cornelio Gallo: il papiro di Qasr Ibrîm venticinque anni dopo. Napoli: Graus, 2003. page number: P. 128, Tav. 12. url: Beck, Herbert, Peter Bol, and Maraike Bückling. Ägypten Griechenland Rom: Abwehr und Berührung, (Exhib. cat.).Frankfurt: Das Städel, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, 2005. page number: P. 710, cat. 321 (discussed and ill.). url: Hoffmann, Friedhelm, Martina Minas-Nerpel, and Stefan Pfeiffer. Die dreisprachige Stele des C. Cornelius Gallus: Übersetzung und Kommentar. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. page number: Taf. IV-V. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.20/1966.20_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.20/1966.20_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.20/1966.20_full.tif