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View: In gallery, raking light
Fresco panel
Roman
Imperial Period
about A.D. 14–62
Findspot: Italy, Campania, near Pompeii, Villa of the Contrada Bottaro
Medium/Technique
Fresco
Dimensions
Height x width: 100.5 x 100 cm (39 9/16 x 39 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Richard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession Number25.44
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsPaintings
DescriptionThe panel shows fantastic architecture on black ground. Beneath the coffered ceiling a hexastyle circular building stands on low pediment. Two peacocks perch on scrolls emerging from roof of circular building. The fresco has been executed in the ornate style.
Provenance1901/1902, excavated by Gennaro Matrone (d. 1927) in a room on the south side of the peristyle of the Contrada Bottaro Villa, about a half-mile south of Pompeii; ownership granted by the Italian State to Gennaro Matrone. October 30, 1924, sold by Prof. U. Marcellini (dealer), Naples, to Brummer Gallery, New York (stock nos. P1429-P1432); 1925, sold by Brummer Gallery to the MFA for $5805 [see note]. (Accession Date: March 5, 1925)
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 25.44 – 25.47 were purchased together for this amount.
NOTE: MFA accession nos. 25.44 – 25.47 were purchased together for this amount.