The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Bronze statuette of a girl holding a dog

Art Object

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Bronze statuette of a girl holding a dog

Period:: Late Hellenistic or Imperial
Date:: 1st century B.C.-2nd century A.D.
Culture:: Greek or Roman
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm)
Classification:: Bronzes
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1913
Accession Number:: 13.225.4

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171

References

Richter, Gisela M.A. 1914. "Department of Classical Art Accessions 1913: Bronzes." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 9(4): pp. 90-91, fig. 1.
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