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Woman standing

Greek
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Tanagra

Medium/Technique Terracotta
Dimensions 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7811
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionStatuette of woman standing. Hair divided in rolls from back to front. Dark red on hair, lighter red on eyes and lips, blue on himation, traces of red on chiton, with gray below. Gray also on himation (perhaps blue discolored). The base, though ancient, seems not to belong.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens. [with 01.7850]; purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901