Artemis or Bendis with a Herm of Pan

Acquired between about 1890 and 1910 by Raphaël Collin [1850-1916], Paris;[1] purchased c. 1911 by William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Details about the formation of the antiquities collection acquired by William Clark are in the Clark collection records, in NGA curatorial files. Collin was a painter, and a student of Greek history and archaeology, who had the advice of Edmond Pottier in assembling the collection. Pottier was a director of the French School of Archaeology in Athens, and curator of the Greek and Roman department at the Louvre in Paris. The works in the collection were mostly made originally for household use, then found their way into tombs in ancient Greece, as belongings of the deceased or as offerings at the time of burial.