Les Petits chemins

Edgar Degas, 1885

Edgar Degas, 1879

Edgar Degas, c. 1893  Pastel and Charcoal

Porcelain and glaze

Fragments from the burial assemblage of the Lady of the House, Heresenes, were discovered in Pit 1 of Tomb MMA 832, along with burial equipment belonging to the Doorkeeper of Amun, Pakherkhonsu. The principal elements of Heresenes’s burial represented by this fragmentary material include her large outer anthropoid coffin, a smaller inner anthropoid coffin, and a cartonnage mummy case that had been torn open by plunderers. This footboard originally served to seal the bottom of the case and secure the mummy inside. Its decoration depicts the sacred Apis bull, associated with the god Ptah, carrying Heresenes’s mummy.

Bronze and plaster

Photo: Sandro Vannini

Basket. 17th century. Credit line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/187305

The Triumph of Constantine (Gemma Constantiniana), Roman, about AD 320-330, sardonyx in a seventeenth-century gilt and jeweled setting. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden.

Fragment of a Hanging. 18th century. Credit line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/444442

from The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Private Collection