Portrait of a Lady with an Attendant Holding an Oval Portrait

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Portrait of a Lady with an Attendant Holding an Oval Portrait

c. 1736

Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, 1682–1752)

Amigoni worked in Germany, England, and Spain, as well as in his native Venice, and was known for his portraits. This study for a double likeness, in which a lady of high rank presents an image of a man (perhaps deceased?) in an oval frame, may have been done during the artist's stay in England between 1729 and 1739.

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Object Details

Title:

Portrait of a Lady with an Attendant Holding an Oval Portrait
Studies of a Hand and Drapery (verso)

Date:

c. 1736

Artist:

Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, 1682–1752)

Medium:

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 3/16 inches (23.2 x 18.2 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund (by exchange), 1984

Accession Number:

1984-56-486

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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