Object Title
Portrait of an old woman
Measurements
35.2 x 24.13 x 26.67 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
Creation Date
ca. A.D. 280–340
Credit Line
Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
Culture
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/126989
Provenance Information
Collection of Ugo Donato (Donati Arte Classica, Lugano, Switzerland, by 1982, said to have been acquired in late 1950s-early 1960s (letter of 28 February 2008 from Stefano Donati, his grandson, on file); sale of the above, Phoenix Ancient Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2008.
Exhibition Information
GESICHTER, Ausstellung im Bernischen Historichen Museum, 11/6/1982-02/06/1983.

Reconstructing Antiquity, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, 09/21/2010–06/03/2012
Publication Information
"Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 143, ill.;;Hartwin Brandt, Wird auch silbern mein Haar : Eine Geschichte des Alters in der Antike (München: C.H. Beck, 2002), 199–200, fig. 67.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Said to have been acquired in Switzerland in late 1950s-early 1960s