Face from the Lid of a Sarcophagus
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Object Label
This early canvas by Julian Alden Weir is a visual homage to the Barbizon School, a group of nineteenth-century French painters who worked in a village of the same name near the Forest of Fontainebleau, on the outskirts of Paris. This style of painting, characterized by a sunlit palette of greens and browns, brushy application of paint, and pastoral depiction of nature, was absorbed by the artist while training abroad between 1873 and 1877. Weir would later embrace Impressionism, along with his fellow artist Childe Hassam, whose work is represented nearby.
Caption
Face from the Lid of a Sarcophagus, ca. 1336–1250 B.C.E.. Sandstone, 18 × 17 × 5 in. (45.7 × 43.2 × 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 85.166. Creative Commons-BY
Title
Face from the Lid of a Sarcophagus
Date
ca. 1336–1250 B.C.E.
Dynasty
late Dynasty 18 to early Dynasty 19
Period
New Kingdom to Ramesside Period
Geography
Place made: Egypt
Medium
Sandstone
Classification
Dimensions
18 × 17 × 5 in. (45.7 × 43.2 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
85.166
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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Frequent Art Questions
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One detail I especially like from this sarcophagus fragment is the way that the figure's ears are being pushed forward because the hair is so heavy!Tell me more.
Can you see the markings on the hair? Those represent a floral head band.Floral imagery was important in ancient Egyptian funerary equipment because it had connotations of rebirth since flowers die and come back each year.Thanks for info!
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