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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

110 x 152 cm

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated 'Angelica Kauffman / pinxit Rome / 1788'

Literature:

Lady V. Manners and G.C. Williamson, Angelica Kauffmann, R.A.: her life and works, London, 1924, pp. 153, 170., W. Wassyng Roworth, 'Kauffman and the Art of Painting in England', in Angelica Kauffmann: A Continental Artist in Georgian England, London, 1992, p. 91. , C. Knight, La memoria delle piture di Angelica Kauffmann, Rome, 1998, p. 79. , W. Wassyng Roworth, 'Ancient Matron and Modern Patrons: Angelica Kauffman as a Classical History Painter', in Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe, M. Hyde and J. Milman, eds., New York, 2003, pp. 202-206, fig. 9.6.

Provenance:

Commissioned by Prince Poniatowski, nephew of the King of Poland, January 1788., Private collection, Sweden., with Rafael Valls, Ltd., London, by 1994. , with Simon Dickinson, Ltd., where acquired by the present owner in 1995.