Painting of Lady Tjepu (Q15788627)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: portrait (Q134307)
artist: no value
collection: Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)
location: Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)
country of origin: Ancient Egypt (Q11768)
material used: limestone (Q23757) plaster (Q274988) clay earth pigment (Q265894)
time period: Ancient Egypt (Q11768)
depicts: woman (Q467) dress (Q200539) bijou (Q3575260) Menat (Q1779386) head cone (Q2213984)
instance of: fresco (Q22669139) archaeological find (Q10855061) Portrait (Q21768299) painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: aQHrh_gVi6lw_g
Brooklyn Museum artwork ID: 3743

catalog URL: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3743

information from the Brooklyn Museum catalog

description: One of the most remarkable paintings to survive from ancient Egypt, this depiction of the noblewoman Tjepu came from a tomb built for her son Nebamun and a man named Ipuky. Egyptian artists usually did not depict individuals as they truly looked, but rather as eternally youthful, lavishly dressed, and in an attitude of repose. Tjepu was about forty years old when this painting was executed, but she is shown in what was the height of youthful fashion during the reign of Amunhotep III: a perfumed cone on her heavy wig, a delicate side tress, and a semitransparent, fringed linen dress.

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