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   Portrait, Sculpture, Europe
Works of Art (70)
Bust of Marie de France, ca. 1381, Jean de Liège (Franco-Netherlandish, Île-de-France, Saint-Denis, Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Chapel of Notre-Dame-la-Blanche, Marble, lead insets, traces of polychromy (41.100.132) 
 
Head of Constans, ca. 337–340, Early Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire), Marble (67.107) 
 
Amélie de Montfort, 1868–69, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Terracotta (1989.289.2) 
 
An Englishman, 1740, Pierre-Antoine Verschaffelt (English), Carrara marble, gray marble (pedestal) (1978.3) 
 
Antefix in the shape of a female head, ca. 625–600 B.C., South Italian; From Matauros, Terracotta (22.139.56) 
 
Aureus of Septimius Severus, with a portrait of Julia Domna, ca. 193–96 A.D.; Severan, Roman, Gold (99.35.218) 
 
Bust of Alexander Menshikov (1673–1729), ca. 1703–4, Swiss, Austrian, or German sculptor, active in Russia, ca. 1703–4, Red pine (1996.7) 
 
Bust of Francis I, 1529, Girolamo della Robbia (Italian), Glazed terracotta (41.100.245)  
 
Bust of Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German), Marble on an ebony socle inlaid with marble panels (2002.468) 
 
Bust of Napoleon III, 1873, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French), Marble (1974.297) 
 
Bust of Patroclus, 1843, William Henry Fox Talbot (British), Salted paper print from paper negative (1988.1159) 
 
Bust of Voltaire (1694–1778), 1778, Jean-Antoine Houdon (French), French; Paris, Marble (1972.61) 
 
Cameo portrait of the emperor Augustus, 41–54; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Sardonyx (42.11.30)  
 
Capital with Four Heads, ca. 1230, Southern Italy, Apulia, probably Troia, Limestone (55.66) 
 
Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1576–1633), 1632, Giuliano Finelli (Italian), Marble (53.201) 
 
Cippus (funerary altar) of Cominia Tyche, ca. 90–95 A.D.; Late Flavian, Roman, Marble (38.27)  
 
Corbel with Female Head, early 13th century, Spain, Castilla-León, Frías (near Burgos), Parish Church of San Vicente Martír, Stone, polychromy (23.110.56) 
 
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723), ca. 1683–85, Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian), Italian (Florence), Marble (1993.332.1); Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici (1663–1713), ca. 1683–85, Giovanni Battista Foggini (Italian), Italian (Florence), Marble (1993.332.2) 
 
Double Capital, mid-12th century, France, Toulouse region, Languedoc (?), Marble (28.81) 
 
Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known as Caligula, 37–42; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (14.37)  
 
Final Study of the Monument to Balzac, modeled 1897, this bronze cast 1972, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze (1984.364.15) 
 
Fragmentary head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet, probably Julio-Claudian, ca. 14–68 A.D., Roman; copy of a Greek work of the 2nd century B.C., Marble, pigment, gilding (1992.11.66)  
 
Head of a Bearded Man with a Garland Crown (Jupiter?), ca. 1230–50, Southern Italy, Limestone (L.2003.13) 
 
Head of a bearded man, Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble (1993.342)  
 
Head of a Cleric, ca. 1450–60, Eastern France, Red sandstone (47.42) 
 
Head of a Grotesque, ca. 1200–1220, France, Champagne, Châlons-sur-Marne, Church of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux (?), Limestone (13.152.2) 
 
Head of a Man Wearing a Cap or Helmet, possibly 2nd–3rd century, Probably British Isles (Celtic), Fossiliferous limestone (2000.525.1) 
 
Head of a Ptolemaic queen, Hellenistic, ca. 270–250 B.C., Greek, Marble (2002.66) 
 
Head of a youth, third quarter of 5th century B.C.; Classical, Greek, Bronze (29.48)  
 
Head of an Apostle, ca. 1280–1300, Upper Rhineland, probably Strasbourg, Red sandstone (2004.453) 
 
Head of Athena, Hellenistic, late 3rd–2nd century B.C., Greek, Marble (1996.178)  
 
Head of Augustus, Roman Period, 27–20 B.C., Egyptian, Blue-green (glassy?) faience (26.7.1428) 
 
Head of Balzac, 1891, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta (12.11.1) 
 
Head of Christ, late 15th–early 16th century, Netherlands, North Brabant, Limestone, traces of wood (1983.406) 
 
Head of Epikouros, Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble (11.90)  
 
Head of Joseph, ca. 1230, France; Chartres, Limestone with traces of polychrome (2007.143)  
 
Head of King David, ca. 1145, France, Paris, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, south portal of west facade (Saint Anne Portal), Limestone (38.180) 
 
Head, 1960, Pablo Picasso (Spanish), Oil on canvas (1990.192) 
 
Intaglio portrait of a young woman, 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.; Augustan, Roman, Sard (74.51.4236) 
 
Intaglio portrait of Emperor Tiberius, 14–37 A.D.; Tiberian, Roman, Carnelian and gold (1994.230.7) 
 
Intaglio with a portrait of the empress Julia Domna, ca. 205–210; Severan, Roman, Beryl (25.78.90)  
 
John Barnard, 1744, John Michael Rysbrack (Flemish), English, Marble (1976.330) 
 
Madame X, ca. 1907, Auguste Rodin (French), Marble (11.173.6) 
 
Philippe VI, Jeanne de Bourgogne, and Jean de France in Prayer, ca. 1340–1350, French, Marble (17.190.387,388,392)  
 
Pope Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi (1599–1667, r. 1655–1667), 1667, Melchiore Caffa (Maltese), Bronze (57.20) 
 
Pope Innocent X, Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (1574–1655, r. 1644–1655), second half of 17th century, After Alessandro Algardi (Italian), Bronze (08.49) 
 
Portrait bust of a bearded man, ca. 150–75 A.D.; Antonine, Roman, Marble (1998.209) 
 
Portrait bust of a man, 1st century B.C.; Republican, Roman, Marble (12.233) 
 
Portrait bust of a Roman matron, mid-1st century A.D.; Late Julio-Claudian, Roman, Bronze (52.11.6)  
 
Portrait bust of a woman, 200–230 A.D.; Severan, Roman, Marble (18.145.39) 
 
Portrait head of an elderly woman, Late Republican or Early Imperial, Augustan, ca. 40–20 B.C., Roman, Marble, pigment (2000.38)  
 
Portrait head of the Emperor Augustus, ca. 14–37; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (07.286.115) 
 
Portrait head of the emperor Constantine I, ca. 324–337; Constantinian; Late Antique period, Roman, Marble (26.229)  
 
Portrait head of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (called Caracalla), ca. 217–230; Late Severan, Roman, Marble (40.11.1a)  
 
Portrait Medallion: Carchesius, dated 1541, Attributed to Hans Kels the Younger, South German (Augsburg), Boxwood (17.190.487)  
 
Portrait Medallion: Clara Rosenberger, mid-16th century, South German, Honestone (17.190.468)  
 
Portrait Medals: Empress Maria and Emperor Maximillian II, dated 1575, Monogrammed "AN:AB" for Antonio Abondio (Italian) Silver, uniface (1989.12.2,3)  
 
Portrait of Daniel, Archbishop of Mainz, dated 1568, Monogrammed by the Master H.K V.B, South German or Middle-Rhenish, Honestone (17.190.488)  
 
Portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius, 138–161; Antonine, Roman, Marble (33.11.3)  
 
Portrait statue of a boy, Late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Bronze (14.130.1)  
 
Relief portrait of the emperor Lucius Verus, ca. 166–170; Antonine, Roman, Marble (13.227.1)  
 
Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix, second quarter of 13th century, France, Limousin, Church of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Gilded silver, rock crystal, gems, glass, originally over walnut core with silver leaf and gesso on interior (17.190.352a,b) 
 
Snuffbox, ca. 1764–65, Possibly by Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu (French), French; Paris, Four-color gold, enamel (17.190.1158) 
 
Statue of a draped seated man, Republican or Early Imperial, 1st century B.C., Roman, Marble (09.221.4) 
 
Statuette of a philosopher on a lamp stand, Early Imperial, Augustan, late 1st century B.C., Roman, Marble (10.231.1)  
 
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer; cast in 1922 from a mixed-media sculpture modeled ca. 1879–80, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, partly tinted, with cotton skirt and satin hair ribbon, on a wooden base (29.100.370) 
 
The Prince Impérial with His Dog Néro, 1912, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French); Manufacturer: Sèvres; Modeler: Henri Robert (French), Hard-paste biscuit porcelain (1972.79) 
 
Tomb Effigy of Jean d'Alluye, mid-13th century, French; Made in Loire Valley, Limestone (25.120.201)  
 
Two portraits of Trebonianus Gallus, 251–53 A.D., Roman, Bronze (05.30, 05.47) 
 
Vase ("Vase Jasmine Cornet"), 1834, Sèvres Manufactory (French); Decorated by Pierre Riton (French); gilded by Jean-Louis Moyez (French), Hard-paste porcelain (1978.373) 
 
Thematic Essays (13)