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Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, also known as Portrait of Boy, is a portrait by an anonymous artist from Roman Egypt of about 100 to 150 AD. The portrait depicts a young boy, who is named as "Eutyches, freedman of Kasanios" by an inscription. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1] The work was produced after the boy's death, and is classified as one of the Fayum mummy portraits.[2]

Portrait of the Boy Eutyches
Year	c. A.D 100-150
Medium	Encaustic paint on wood
Subject	Eutyches
Dimensions	38 cm × 19 cm (15 in × 7.5 in)
Location	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Such mortuary portraits, attached to the burial, were popular as an artistic medium in the 1st century AD during the Roman Empire's rule over Egypt, which was dominated by an upper class of ethnic Greeks. This blending of Roman, Greek and Egyptian cultures in the imperial province of Egypt resulted in a unique art form that drew influences from Classical Greece and Egypt while at the same time utilizing materials provided by Rome's flourishing economy.[1][3]

It was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Edward Harkness in 1918, and is usually on display at the museum.[1]

Description

Portrait of the Boy Eutyches exemplifies a fusion of Classical Greek-inflected portrait painting methods, Roman clothing, painting materials, and the historical Egyptian reverence for the dead. The portrait, done in encaustic paint on wood panel, was intended to be placed on the face of deceased after they were mummified. Unlike some earlier mummy portraits, Portrait of the Boy Eutyches is noted to be heavily influenced by Greco-Roman artistic tradition as opposed to Egyptian.[1][2]

The portrait makes use of light and dark colors coupled with broad brush strokes to model the boy's face. The olive background of the panel is used to contrast the subject's deep tan complexion and dark hair, as well as to create a sense of depth. The image depicted by the portrait is lit by an intra-painting light source to the boy's right; this can be inferred through the reflections present in the boy's eyes. The boy is dressed in white garb.[1]

References

Bibliography

• Nicola Hoesch: Mumienporträts in: Der Neue Pauly, Vol. 8 (2000), p. 464f.

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- [en] Portrait of the Boy Eutyches

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[fr] Portrait du jeune Eutyches

Le Portrait du jeune Eutyches, également connu sous le nom de Portrait de jeune garçon, est un portrait du Fayoum du IIe siècle réalisé par un artiste égyptien anonyme. Le portrait représente un jeune garçon et fait partie de la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York[1].

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