Fayum mummy portrait, male (circa late 2nd century), Christie's

AN EGYPTIAN PAINTED WOOD MUMMY PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN
ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Painted in the encaustic technique, depicting a young man, on a cream ground, his thick curly black hair falling in wisps onto his forehead, with arching eyebrows, his almond-shaped eyes with long lashes and dark irises, his full lips pursed, with a mustache and a short beard, wearing a white cloak preserving gilding on the neck and blue delineating folds
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Theodor Graf (1840-1903), Vienna.
with J.J. Klejman, New York.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 10-11 June 1983, lot 39.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1995, lot 230.

with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 7 July 1996 (Art of the Ancient World vol. IX, no. 241).