Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna
A.D. 1924; original ca. 1400–1352 B.C.
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
facsimile: h. 101 cm (39 3/4 in); w. 189 cm (74 7/16 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 107 cm (41 1/8 in); w. 189 cm (77 in); th. 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in)
Classification
Facsimile, Menna (TT 69), marsh hunting
Period
Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom
Department
Egyptian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.4.48
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About this artwork
This tempera on paper, created in A.D. 1924; original ca. 1400–1352 B.C., represents significant artistic achievement by Nina de Garis Davies, a artist. The piece demonstrates the technical capabilities and aesthetic conventions of art during this historical period. Working in tempera on paper, the artist employed materials and techniques characteristic of the era, creating visual effects that convey both subject matter and artistic vision. Museum collections preserve such works to ensure co...
About the Artist
Nina de Garis Davies · 1881–1965
Nina de Garis Davies, born Anna Macpherson Cummings on January 6, 1881, in Salonika, Greece, to English-Scottish parents Cecil J. Cummings and Sarah Macintosh Tannoch, showed early artistic talent as the eldest of three daughters. After her father's death in 1894, the family relocated to Scotland and then London, where she trained at the Slade School of Art. In 1906, at age 25, a holiday trip to E...