Head of the Queen of Egypt
1888
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46.1 × 38.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-138090
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was still new when Kenyon Cox went there to study art from around the world. Without having to travel abroad, American artists could learn from examples of ancient sculpture in the Met’s collection of plaster casts. Cox copied an Egyptian portrait and, following the fashion for trompe l’oeil, or “fool the eye” painting, he created the illusion of paper tacked onto t…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Allyn Cox
Registry history
- 1888 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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