A: DEATH OF AKTAION, ARTEMIS IN DEER SKIN WITH BOW, DOGS | B: PAN PURSUING HERDSMAN, WITH WHIP, ANIMAL SKIN AND BOOTS, HERM ON ROCK
Provenance
4 recorded events
Excavation
c. 1890s
Cumae, Campania, Italy
Excavated at the Greek colony of Cumae, the earliest Greek settlement on the Italian mainland.
Purchase
c. 1900s
Italian dealer
Naples, Italy
Through the Neapolitan antiquities market.
Purchase
c. 1909
Edward Perry Warren
Lewes, England
Acquired by Edward Perry Warren at Lewes House, Sussex. Warren was the principal agent for the Boston MFA, assembling one of the greatest collections of classical antiquities in the Americas.
Purchase
1910
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA, USA
Purchased from Edward Perry Warren for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Boston MFA acquisition records
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)