Terracotta bust of a man
Unknown Artist
The mold used to make this work is difficult to distinguish from one for a female figure. Note especially the treatment of the hair. The addition of a painted beard and moustache, however, very simply changed the sex.
Credit: Gift of Ernest Brummer, 1959
5th century B.C.
Terracotta
18.1 x 18.1 cm
59.48.25
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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