Portrait head of a woman,

98–117 CE

Excavated at Chiavenna in 1879 at the house of the Count Salis Soglio;1912 sold by Alfredo Barsanti to Guiseppe Sangiorgi; acquired from the above in Rome, no later than August 1921, by Ernest Brummer who, together with his brother Joseph Brummer, imported it to the United States in that year; by 1946 with Fahim Kouchakji; on loan to Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, March-November 1950; 1953, possibly on loan to Yale University; in 1969 at auction with Sotheby's, London, lot 81; in 1978 was at auction at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, listed as Kouchakji Estate, acquired by Stanley Moss; purchased from Stanley Moss & Co., New York, by the Princeton University Art Museum.

• Rodolfo Lanciani, Federico Mermanin and Roberto Paribeni, “Sull’ autenticità di una testa di bronzo”, Ausonia: rivista della Società italiana di archeologia e storia dell’arte 9 (1919).

  , p. 123-138
• Carlo Albizzati, "Ritratto femminile dell'eta di Traiano," Atti della Pontificia Accademia romana di archeologia 15 (ser. 2) (1920): p. 291-359., p. 291-307 (Illus.)
• Kurt Kluge and Karl Lehmann Hartleben, Die Antiken Grossbronzen, (Berlin; Leipzig: Verlag von Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1927)., Vol. 1: p. 240-241
• An exhibition of ancient sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, May-June 1950, (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, 1950)., cat. no. 42

• 2500 years of Italian art and civilization: sculpture, painting, decorative arts, (Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1957).

  , no. 28, fig. 11;
• Michael Milkovich, Roman portraits: a loan exhibition of Roman sculpture and coins from the first century B.C. through the fourth century A.D.: April 6-May 14, 1961, (Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1961)., cat. no. 18 (illus.)

• Catalogue of Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Irish Bronze Age, Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Anglo-Saxon antiquities, ancient glass and jewellery, Islamic pottery and metalwork: including a highly important Roman bronze head of a woman, 2nd century A.D.: day of sale: Tuesday, 1st July, 1969, (London: Sotheby and Co., 1969).

  , lot 261

• Important Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic antiquities: fine ancient and Islamic glass from the collection of Wheaton College: Dec. 14, 1978, (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1978).

  , no. 274 (color illus.)
• "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1980", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 40, no. 1 (1981): p. 14-31., p. 21; p. 20 (illus)
• Patricia E. Mottahedeh, "The Princeton bronze portrait of a woman with reticulatum", in Arthur Houghton, ed., Festschrift für Leo Mildenberg: Numismatik, Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie, (Wetteren: Editions NR, 1984). , p. 193-210; pls. 29-30.
• Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 79 (illus.)
• Ian Jenkins and Dyfri Williams, "A bronze portrait head and its hair net", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 2 (1987): p. 8-15., p. 9-10; figs. 1-4
• Pieter Meyers, "The Use of Scientific Techniques in Provenance Studies of Ancient Bronzes" in Marion True and Jerry Podany, eds., Small bronze sculpture from the ancient world: papers delivered at a symposium, (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990). , p. 238-40
• A.J.N.W. Prag and R.A.H. Neave, "Who is the 'Carian Princess?,'" in ed. Jacob Isager, Hekatomnid Caria and the Ionian Renaissance: acts of the International Symposium at the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, Odense University, 28-29 November, 1991, (Odense: Odense University Press, 1994). , p. 104-105; fig. 14

• Carol C. Mattusch, with contributions by Beryl Barr-Sharrar, et. al., The fire of Hephaistos: large classical bronzes from North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996).

  , p. 58; color pl. 7; p. 293-96; cat. no. 39
• A.J.N.W. Prag and R.A.H Neave, Making faces: using forensic evidence and archaeological evidence, (London: British Museum Press, 1997). , p. 215; fig. 6
• E. Bartman, "Hair and the artifice of Roman female adornment", American journal of archaeology 105, no. 1 (Jan., 2001): p. 1-25., p. 14; pl. 2; p. 16 (illus.)
• J. Michael Padgett, ed., Roman sculpture in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Art Museum, Princeton University, 2001)., p. 374-376; cat. no. 161
• C.C. Vermeule, "Faces of empire (Julius Caesar to Justinian)", Celator 19, no. 11 (Nov., 2005)., p. 25; fig. 2
• Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 265 (illus.)
• Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 317
• Molly M. Linder, Portraits of the Vestal Virgins, priestesses of Ancient Rome, (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2015)., fig. 68
• Eve D'Ambra, "Style from Below in the Roman Empire: A Bust of a Matron at the J. Paul Getty Museum," Getty Research Journal, no. 15 (2022): 1-24.

• An Educated Eye: The Princeton University Art Museum Collection (Friday, February 22, 2008 - Sunday, June 15, 2008)