An ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom large polychrome wood striding male figure with his arms to his sides and his left foot forward, bare chested and wearing a white kilt, his tanned skin indicated with red paint, his short wig and eyes in black.
Middle Kingdom, 12th – 18th Dynasty,
Ca. 1981 – 1550 BC.
Formerly in a New York private collection, acquired from Petit Musee, Montreal on April 4, 1977, said to have belonged to the Canadian Ambassador to Egypt since the 1930s; loaned to the Brooklyn Museum, 1979 -1992; loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992 -2024.
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