?[art market, Berlin, by 1927–at least 1928]; private collection, Berlin (in 1933); [Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, until 1938; exchanged with Neuman]; Baron Karl Neuman (Charles Neuman de Végvár), Vienna, later Greenwich, Conn
[New York], [1970], p. 4. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri.
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.
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
View #1 front right profile left rear left profile b&w, detail of King, right
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Goldner, Ian Wardropper, Thomas P. Campbell, Dita Amory, Laurence B.
Harkness Gift, 1920 Object Number: 20.3.209a, b Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition
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
Tunic with Dionysos and Dionysian ThemesA longer, wider version of the tunic was the ubiquitous garment of the Late Antique period. This tunic is one of four in the Museum’s collection said to be from Akhmim, an ancient weaving center and apparently a center of both pagan and Christian thought and religion
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. no. 31, listed p.46, ill. fig. 10
