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109 A CUBICULUM IN A VILLA AT BOSCOREALE, NEAR POMPEII These frescoes are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, set up as they were in the villa.

"Young Woman with a Stylus," fresco from Pompeii, 1st Century ce.

"Still life with Peaches," still life fresco from Herculaneum, c.50 ce. Fourth style Roman wall painting.
Museo Nazionale Arcologico, Naples

Seated woman playing a kithara: From Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, ca. 4030 b.c.; Late Republican Roman Wall painting
Fresco: 72 1/2 x 72 1/2 in. (186 x 186 cm) Rogers Fund, 1903 (03.14.5)

This painting of a seated woman playing a kithara is from Room H, either a dining room (triclinium) or a room for social gatherings (oecus), in the villa at Boscoreale.

Primary Sources: the villa at Boscoreale (a villa rustica) the Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase