Thutmose I and His Mother Seniseneb
A.D. 1925; original ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
Facsimile: H. 81.5 cm (32 1/16 in.); W. 71 cm (27 15/16 in.) scale 1:1 Framed: H. 83.3 cm (32 13/16 in.); W. 73.1 cm (28 3/4 in.)
Classification
Facsimile, Hatshepsut-Temple, Thutmose I, Seniseneb
Period
New Kingdom
Department
Egyptian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.4.137
Tags
Art Historical Context
This striking facsimile captures a tender royal scene from ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom, originally painted on the walls of a Theban tomb around 1479–1458 B.C. Created by British artist Nina de Garis Davies in 1925 using tempera on paper at exact one-to-one scale, it depicts Pharaoh Thutmose I alongside his mother, Seniseneb. The composition highlights the pharaoh’s regal bearing and the intimate bond between mother and son, rendered with the precise linework and vibrant pigments typical of 18th Dynasty tomb decoration. Davies was renowned for her meticulous copies of Egyptian wall paintings, ...
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...