Artwork Details
- Title
- Head of an Arab Girl
- Artist
- Date
- n.d.
- Location
- Dimensions
- 8 x 6 3⁄8 in. (20.4 x 16.3 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Martha F. Butler
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on paperboard
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Arabian
- Dress — Arabian dress
- Figure female — bust
- Object Number
- 1992.66.2
Artwork Description
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg made many sketches of Egypt, Palestine, and Constantinople during the 1840s. When he returned to Florence, he created several idealized paintings of Middle Eastern people that he advertised as “national representative portraits.” (Davis, The Landscape of Belief, 1996)