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New York Times (November 20, 2021), ill. p. C1 (color, installation view).
New York Times (November 20, 2021), ill. p. C1 (color, installation view).
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 31 (11), p. 221.
1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
London: Chatto and Windus, p. 127. Porada, Edith. 1945.
A traveling troupe of commedia dell’arte actors entertains a party of Venetians enjoying a summer holiday on the mainland. Such performances often ended with a minuet, depicted here. The dancing couple may be the lovers Lelio and Isabella (sometimes called by other names), the only actors in the troupe who did not wear masks
B. Tiepolo: la sua vita e le sue opere.
Donnan, Christopher B. Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru.
1967, excavated under the direction of David Stronach and John Hansman, representing the British Institute of Persian Studies and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; acquired by the Museum in 1969, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969 Object Number: 69.24.29a, b 1967, excavated under the
Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
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