id: 147036
accession number: 1972.6
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Statuette of Harpocrates, c. 50 BCE. Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty. Bronze, hollow cast, with silver inlays; overall: 27 x 10.2 x 8.6 cm (10 5/8 x 4 x 3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1972.6
title: Statuette of Harpocrates
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creation date: c. 50 BCE
creation date earliest: -70
creation date latest: -30
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Greece, Greco-Roman Period, late Ptolemaic Dynasty
technique: bronze, hollow cast, with silver inlays
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Greek
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 27 x 10.2 x 8.6 cm (10 5/8 x 4 x 3 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1972
opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Small Sculptures in Bronze from the Classical World, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, N.C., (March 7 - April 18, 1976)', 'opening_date': '1976-03-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (16 November 1988- 8 January 1989); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (9 February - 9 April 1989); Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA (9 May - July 1989)', 'opening_date': '1989-02-09T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Probably Alexandria
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Private Collection, England (said to have been purchased in Egypt about a century ago)
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Robert Hecht, Jr., Rome, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1972
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
date: 1972-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Arielle P. Kozloff. An Introduction to the Art of Egypt in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1970.
page number: p. 19
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Cooney, John D. "Harpocrates, the Dutiful Son." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 10 (1972)
page number: pp. 284-90
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152456
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1972." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (1973)
page number: p. 106
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732
Zick, Gisela. "Amor0Harpokrates: Zur Wirkungsgeschichte und Ikonographischen Herleitung einer Skulptur von Etienne0Maurice Falconet," Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 37 (1975).
page number: pp. 224-25 fig. 18
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Richardson, Emeline, and G. Kenneth Sams. Small Sculptures in Bronze from the Classical World: An Exhibit in Honor of Emeline Hill Richardson : The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center and the Department of Classics of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 7-April 18, 1976. [Chapel Hill, N.C.]: The Center, 1976.
page number: Cat. No. 33
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Swan Hall, Emma. "Harpocrates and Other Child Deities in Ancient Egyptian Sculpture." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) 56 (1977).
page number: pp. 56-7, pl. XXVII
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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. 27
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n47
Kozloff, A.P. "Harpocrates and the Sacred Goose." The Ancient World 3, No. 3 (September 1980).
page number: figs. 4-5
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Kozloff, Arielle P. "The Egyptian Collection of the Cleveland Museum o Art," Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt 125 (Spring 1984)
page number: p. 11
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Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988.
page number: Cat. No. 21
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Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.
page number: p. 15, fig. 31
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 12
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n27
Cleveland Museum of Art, Lawrence Michael Berman, and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
page number: pp. 474-475, Cat. No. 367
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IMAGES
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