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Old Nurse Holding a Baby Terracotta Figurine in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, January 2018
Old nurse holding a baby
Greek
Early Hellenistic Period
about 325–300 B.C.
Medium/Technique: Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 12.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm (4 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number: 01.7842
Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome
Classifications: Sculpture
Description: Statuette of an old nurse holding a baby. White on flesh and cap of nurse, as well as on base; red on hair of nurse and baby; pale blue on chiton.
Label text:
The affectionate nurse was a character in the "New Comedy" of Menander, and his plays probably inspired figures like this.
Provenance: By 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens: from Tanagra); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901
Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151797/old-nurse-holding-a-baby
Greek
Early Hellenistic Period
about 325–300 B.C.
Medium/Technique: Terracotta
Dimensions Overall: 12.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm (4 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number: 01.7842
Collections: Ancient Greece and Rome
Classifications: Sculpture
Description: Statuette of an old nurse holding a baby. White on flesh and cap of nurse, as well as on base; red on hair of nurse and baby; pale blue on chiton.
Label text:
The affectionate nurse was a character in the "New Comedy" of Menander, and his plays probably inspired figures like this.
Provenance: By 1901: with Edward Perry Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens: from Tanagra); purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren, December 1901
Text from: collections.mfa.org/objects/151797/old-nurse-holding-a-baby
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