Currently not on view
The Dormition of the Virgin,
before 1709
Greek
Byzantine
y1959-13
Information
Title
The Dormition of the Virgin
Dates
before 1709
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
31.7 x 26.7 x 4.2 cm (12 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1959-13
Culture
Period
Type
Subject
Formerly part of the Lion Estate collection, acquired at an unknown date from an unknown source; purchased by the Musem in 1959 at the Parke-Bernet Galleries.
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Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities: Syrian and Roman glass, Greco-Buddhist & other Middle Eastern antiquities... from ... William Randoph Hearst ... Mrs. Hernan Larrain ... Ronald Savin ..., (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1959).
, cat. no. 200 -
"Recent acquisitions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 20, no. 1 (1961): p. 24-27.
, p. 25 - Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., cat. no. 23; p. 55
