Image scanned by Sara Beth Walsh and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Funerary Portrait Statue

Artist Unknown

CultureRoman

Date50-1 B.C.E.

MediumClastic limestone

Dimensions82 x 23 x 19 in. (208.3 x 58.4 x 48.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number78.429

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 108

Label TextFunerary Portrait Statue Roman, 50-1 B.C.E. Clastic limestone Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 78.429 Ancient Greek and Roman art were a key part of the history of Western art that Chrysler sought to represent in his encyclopedic museum collection. Again, his preference for large-scale figurative art drew him to assemble full-length statues of typically Roman subjects like this funerary figure of a woman. Her idealized pose and drapery belie her function as she marked a tomb and commemorated the life of its occupant with a mournful and reflective gesture.