Recovered from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Limestone Head of Joseph

An open-access work filed through Faces in Time and Objects with Gravity.

Date: ca. 1230
Culture: French
Medium: Limestone with traces of polychromy
Object type: Sculpture-Stone
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object no.: 477779
Credit line: Purchase, Scher Chemicals Inc. and Audrey Love Charitable Foundation Gifts; Anonymous Gift, in honor of Charles T. Little; William and Toni Conte and Stephen K. Scher Gifts; and funds from various donors, 2007
Dimensions: 3586 × 3701 px · square
Rooms: Faces in Time Objects with Gravity

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Suggested credit: Limestone Head of Joseph (ca. 1230). Purchase, Scher Chemicals Inc. and Audrey Love Charitable Foundation Gifts; Anonymous Gift, in honor of Charles T. Little; William and Toni Conte and Stephen K. Scher Gifts; and funds from various donors, 2007 Rights: CC0. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/477779

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