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Title:Bronze statuette of a pantheress
Period:Imperial
Date:1st–2nd century CE
Culture:Roman
Medium:Bronze, copper, silver, niello
Dimensions:Other: 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. (14 x 10.8 x 21.9 cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1907
Object Number:07.261
Said to have been found in Rome in 1880 (Richter 1908, p. 58)
1880, excavated in Rome in the Via Babuino; until 1884, collection of Alessandro Castellani, Rome; 1884, sold at the auction of the collection of Alessandro Castellani, Rome; [until 1907, with Ettore Jandolo, Rome]; acquired in 1907, purchased from Ettore Jandolo.
Hôtel Drouot. May 12-16, 1884. Catalogue des objets d'art, antiques du Moyen-Âge et de la Renaissance : dépendant de la succession Alessandro Castellani. no. 306, p. 49.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1908. "New Accessions in the Classical Department: III. The Bronze Panther." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3(3): pp. 58–59, figs. 1–2.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1908. "New Accessions in the Classical Department: III. The Bronze Panther." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3(3): pp. 58–59, figs. 1–2.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 403, pp. 162–66, New York: Gilliss Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 189, fig. 116, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Reinach, Salomon. 1924. "Deux mille trois cent quatre-vingt statues." Répertoire de la Statuaire Grecque et Romaine, Vol. 5, pt. 2, 2nd edn. no. 2, p. 418, Paris: E. Leroux.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 309, fig. 219, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Animals in Greek Sculpture: A Survey. fig. 34, pl. 10, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 309, fig. 219, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pijoán, José and Manuel Cossío. 1932. Summa Artis Historia General del Arte: El arte griego hasta la toma de Corinto por los romanos (146 A.J.C.), Vol. 4. p. 121, fig. 160, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.
Albright Art Gallery. February 1937. Master Bronzes : Selected from Museums and Collections in America: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, exhibition-catalogue. no. 96, Buffalo.
February 1, 1937. "Five Thousand Years of Bronze Sculpture in Buffalo Exhibit." Art Digest, 11: p. 8.
Heidenreich, R. and Deutsches Archaologisches Institut. 1937. "Zu einem Pantherweibchen aus Bronze." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung, 52: p. 267, Note 3.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1940. "A Rearrangement of Roman Portraits." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35(10): p. 201.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 126, 265, pl. 105d, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Harper, Prudence. 1971. "Origin and Influence–Cultural Contacts: Egypt, the Ancient Near East, and the Classical World." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29(7): pp. 324–25.
von Bothmer, Dietrich. 1976. "The Babuino Bronzes." In Memoriam Otto J. Brendel: Essays in Archaeology and the Humanities, Larissa Bonfante and Helga von Heintze, eds. pp. 156–158, pl. 39a-c, Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
Petit, Judith. 1980. Bronzes Antiques de la Collection Dutuit: Grecs, Hellénistiques, Romains et de l'Antiquité Tardive, Collections de la Ville de Paris. pp. 52, 54, Paris: Musée du Petit Palais.
Barnet, Peter and Atsuyuki Nakahara. 2012. Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art. Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.. no. 43, pp. 97, 224–5, Tokyo: Yomiuri Shimbun.
Zanker, Paul, Seán Hemingway, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Joan R. Mertens. 2019. Roman Art : A Guide through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection. no. 58, pp.154–55, New York: Scala Publishers.
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