Mummy Portrait of a Man, Roman Egypt, Flavian Period, circa late 1st century A.D.

Reverend Dr. John F. Goucher (1845-1922), Pikesville, Maryland, acquired in 1895 while traveling to Egypt with the assistance of Émile Brugsch, Cairo and presented to Goucher College, Towson, Maryland shortly thereafter.

New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to Tenth Century A.D., 23 January - 9 March 1941;

Birmingham Museum of Art, The Archaic Smile, 1956;

Detroit Institute of the Arts, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, 22 March - 30 April 1967;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, 15 February - 7 May 2000;

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, long-term loan, from 1950 - present (inv. nos. IL149.1950, IL 1990.28).

G.L. Stout, Technical Studies in the Field of Fine Arts, vol. I, 1932-1933, pp. 82ff, reproduced figs. 1-5;

L.A. Kohn, Goucher Alumnae Quarterly 11, no. 2 (February 1933), pp. 1-2;

J.D. Cooney, Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to Tenth Century A.D., exhibition catalogue, New York 1941, p. 15, cat. no. 1;

Birmingham Museum of Art Bulletin 5, no. 2 (January 1956);

C.C. Vermeule, "Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections Open to the Public," in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108 (1964), p. 100;

W. Peck, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, catalogue to the exhibition, Detroit 1967, p. 7, no. 3;

K. Parlasca, Ritratti di mummie (Repertorio d’Arte dell’Egitto Greco-romano, serie B – volume I), Palermo 1969, cat. no. 150, reproduced pl. 36, fig. 1;

J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 2 (1975), p. 92;

M.L. Root, Faces of Immortality: Egyptian Mummy Masks, Painted Portraits and Canopic Jars in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor 1979, p. 53 note 1;

Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, A. Roy (ed.), Washington D.C. 1993, vol. II, p. 78;

B. Borg, Mumienporträts: Chronologie und kultureller Kontext, Mainz 1996, p. 16;

Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Ancient Egypt, exhibition catalogue, S. Walker (ed.), New York 2000, pp. 102-103, cat. no. 65.