Figurine of a Veiled Dancer with Tambourine, 4th/3rd century B.C.

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Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 20.3 × 7.6 × 3.8 cm (8 × 3 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2014.136.374

Artists / Makers

Boeotian 4th Century B.C. (ceramist)

Boeotian 3rd Century B.C. (ceramist)

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Provenance

Acquired between about 1890 and 1910 by Raphaël Collin [1850-1916], Paris;[1] purchased c. 1911 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Details about the formation of the antiquities collection acquired by William Clark are in the Clark collection records, in NGA curatorial files. Collin was a painter, and a student of Greek history and archaeology, who had the advice of Edmond Pottier in assembling the collection. Pottier was a director of the French School of Archaeology in Athens, and curator of the Greek and Roman department at the Louvre in Paris. The works in the collection were mostly made originally for household use, then found their way into tombs in ancient Greece, as belongings of the deceased or as offerings at the time of burial.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Collin, Raphaël
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 23.

Bibliography

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 240, no. 80.

1928: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1928: 108, no. 2576.

1932: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1932: 109, no. 2576.